Simo Matavulj (; 12 September 1852 â 20 February 1908) was a Serbian writer and translator.
After finishing elementary school in Italian and Serbian in his hometown of à  ibenik, he continued his secondary education in Krupa Monastery and Teacher's College in Zadar from which he graduated in 1871. After graduation, he went to Islam GrÃÂki, where he served as secretary to Count Ilija JankoviÃÂ, the last descendant of Stojan JankoviÃÂ. In 1881, he started working as a teacher in Montenegro, where he met Pavel Rovinsky. A year later, he used an opportunity presented by the government to escort several students from prominent Montenegrin families to schools in Milan and Paris, where he met Anatole France among other writers. He moved to Serbia in 1887 and worked as a teacher in ZajeÃÂar.
He was a representative of lyric realism, especially in short prose. As a writer, he is best known for employing his skill in holding up to ridicule the peculiar foibles of the Dalmatian folk.
Matavulj was an honorary member of the Matica srpska of Novi Sad, the first president of the Association of Writers of Serbia, president of the Society of Artists of Serbia and a member of the Serbian Royal Academy.
Yugoslav writer Ivo AndriÃÂ, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961, called him "the master storyteller".