David Viñas (28 July 1927 – 10 March 2011)[1] was an Argentine dramatist, critic, and novelist.

Viñas' work centers on Argentine history, and generally does not partake of the magical realism favored by many of his contemporaries.

He is deeply concerned with Argentina's legacy of authoritarianism and the problems posed by the nature and historical dominance of the Argentine military.

Two of his children disappeared during the 1976-83 military regime, and he spent that era in exile, returning to Argentina in 1984.

Following the election of left-wing Peronist Néstor Kirchner in 2003, he became a vocal supporter of his, and in 2008 co-founded Carta Abierta ("Open Letter") with journalist Horacio Verbitsky, an informal think tank of left-wing public figures in literature, journalism and academia who regularly publish opinion columns in defense of Kirchnerism.