Gustav Krklec (23 June 1899 – 30 October 1977) was a Croatian writer and translator. Krklec was born in 1899 in near Karlovac. In 1900, he moved with his family to Maruševec, a village near Varaždin. He studied in Vienna and Zagreb. In his youth, he worked as a journalist. Since 1922 he lived in Belgrade, working as a secretary at the stock exchange, and as an editor of . In 1945 he returned to Zagreb, where he worked as an editor in several publishing houses and magazines. In the period 1950–1954 he served as the president of Matica hrvatska. His published poetical collections include: