Antun Bonifačić (; 8 October 1901 24 April 1986) was a Croatian Ustaša politician, professor, and writer. He served as the head of the Department of Cultural Relations for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Independent State of Croatia, a fascist puppet-state of Nazi Germany.
Biography Bonifačić was born in Punat on the island of Krk on 8 October 1901. He went to gymnasium in Pazin and Sušak. In Zagreb, he studied Slavistics and the Romance languages, specializing in Croatian and French, respectively. He received his doctorate with the thesis under the tutelage Gustave Flaubert in 1924. He then left Yugoslavia to study French literature at Sorbonne University for three years. He later returned as a teacher in Sušak, Sombor, Krk, and Zagreb, where he taught French at the University of Zagreb. During World War II, he worked as the head the Department for Cultural Relations at the Foreign Ministry of the Independent State of Croatia and served as the president of the Croatian Writers' Association. He was also a member of the European Writers' League (), which was founded by Joseph Goebbels in 1941/42.Ed. Hellmut Th. Seemann, Angela Jahn, Thorsten Valk: Europa in Weimar - Visionen eines Kontinents. Yearbook of the Classics Foundation Weimar, 2008, . Pages 401, 402.
After the Axis powers lost, he escaped to Rome, then lived in Argentina and Brazil for sometime before immigrating to the United States in 1954. Between 1975 and 1981, he was the president of the Croatian Liberation Movement, a far-right political party founded by Ante Pavelić, the former dictator of the Independent State of Croatia.
Bonifačić died in Chicago on 24 April 1986.
Selected works People of the West: Essays on André Gide and Henry de Montherlant (, 1929) The Blood of Mother Earth (, 1935) Sprouts (, 1938) Between Jupiter and Mars: Croatia and Europe (, 1944) You Will Be Like Gods (, 1950) Let There Be Light (, 1950) Eternal Croatia (, 1953)
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