Saulius Šaltenis (born 24 December 1945) is a Lithuanian writer, newspaper editor, and politician.
In 1989 co-founded the weekly magazine Šiaurės Atėnai with Arvydas Juozaitis and Saulius Stoma [lt] and was its editor from 1990 to 1994.
In 1988, Šaltenis joined the pro-independence Sąjūdis (Lithuanian Reform Movement) and was elected to the Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas, becoming a signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
He co-wrote the first Lithuanian musicals Ugnies medžioklė su varovais (Hunting with Fire; 1976) with the prose writer Leonidas Jacinevičius [lt] and Komunarų gatvė (Communard street; 1978) with Sigitas Geda.
[7] In 2017, he wrote the script for Eimuntas Nekrošius's staging of his story Kalės vaikai (Children of a Bitch).