Dušan Šarotar (born 16 April 1968) is a Slovenian writer, essayist, literary critic and editor.

[1] He was born in the town of Murska Sobota in northeastern Slovenia.

He has published several essays and columns in renowned Slovenian journals, such as Mladina, Nova revija, and Sodobnost.

[2] His best known novel is Billiards at the Hotel Dobray (Bilijard v Dobrayu), an account of the persecution of Jews in Murska Sobota at the end of the Second World War from the perspective of a Holocaust survivor returning from a concentration camp.

The novel, first published in Slovene in 2007, is based on the story of Šarotar's grandfather.