Dinko Šimunović (1 September 1873 – 3 August 1933) was a Croatian writer.

[1] He spent almost two decades as a teacher in villages of the Zagora, the hinterland of Dalmatia.

Šimunović wrote many stories and two novels, all dealing with people from his native region.

His contemporaries described his works as championing a patriarchal, hierarchical, black-and-white world, an impression further reinforced by author's personal distaste towards the modern, urban way of living.

[2] Dinko Šimunović spent his early childhood in Koljane near Vrlika where his father was a teacher in Kijevo.