Ervin Šinko (born Franjo Spitzer; 5 October 1898 – 26 March 1967) was a Hungarian-Yugoslavian writer, publisher and poet. Šinko was born in Apatin to a Jewish family on 5 October 1898. He attended elementary school in Apatin and gymnasium in Subotica. During World War I, in 1917, Šinko was mobilized and in 1918 he participated in the establishment of the Hungarian Soviet Republic. At the center of his literary occupation were the topics and questions about the Hungarian Revolution. Šinko worked in many Hungarian magazine such as: "A Tett", "Ma", "Internationale", "Tüz", "Korunk", "Nyugat" and others. He moved to Vienna, where in 1924 he published magazine "Testvér". Šinko also lived in Zurich, Moscow and Paris. While in Paris his articles were published in "L'Europe", "Monde" and "Ce Soir"