Simon Horontchik (Yiddish: שמעון האָראָנטשיק; 13 June 1889 – September 1939) was a Polish Jewish novelist and short story writer writing in Yiddish. Horontchik was born into a poor Hasidic family in Wieluń. He worked as a labourer at a lacework factory in Kalisz from the age of 17 until the outbreak of the First World War, during which time he began composing poetry. He narrowly escaped the destruction of Kalisz in August 1914, fleeing to Lodz and then Sompolno. There he became a grocer and married.