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PG JOHNSON
PG JOHNSON is a noted novelist and screenplay writer in Kerala. Born in Thrissur District. After his basic education he took diploma in drawing. Worked as Chief Designer in Cinema Today magazine,Gulf Voice and Sunday Supplement weekly. In Telegraph Daily he worked as Executive Editor (see the Media Book 2014 published by Information & Public Relation Department, Government of Kerala). His first novel Kalavarsham (The Rainy season) was written when he was fourteen. The novel published in ChithraPaurnami weekly which had been published from Kochi under the editorship of John Paul, Kaloor Dennies and Artist Kitho. It is to the track of Short-Novel that he concentrated more. After publishing Nercha (The Offering) in Kadha Magazine of Kala Kaumudi Group with the illustrations of Artist Namboodiri, it was M.T. Vasudevan Nair the star-writer of Kerala who encouraged and suggested him to concentrate into the medium of Novelette.

Nercha was his first published novelette in book form. The great writer Vaikom Muhammed Basheer wrote preface for the book.Nercha was centered on a young nun who was forced into clergy life without her desire at all. A storm of controversy raged around the book at the end of nineties. Famous orator Dr. Sukumar Azhikode shouted at the top of his voice to arrest PG Johnson and to ban his book. And a petition had been submitted before the District Collector for the same demand. But the request was rejected since the book was already appreciated for its lyrical-language and psychological approach of the content. Actually, in the Novelette there was nothing against the doctrines of any religion... And there was not any kind of blasphemy against any God or Goddess in the book.

Bheethi(The Fright), Pathirakkattu(The Wind of Darkness), Dinah, Anamika(The Nameless girl)are the other noted novelettes of PG Johnson.

In the opinion of U.A. Khader the dearest writer of Kerala, PG Johnson is a blessed man of letters who could establish his own style of story-telling and who could rise his own solitary voice among the writers of Kerala. Bhashaposhini the leading literal magazine of Malayala Manorama marked him as a writer who has taken place on the platform of Malayalam literature by the literary creations that could be simply counted on fingers itself. The legend writer Basheer said that PG Johnson is a writer who knows how to write anything beautifully... The great critic of all time Professor M.N. Vijayan wrote that PG Johnson is a writer who uncompromisingly captured the strong colors, incidents,lust and anger from the real mines of them... Mathrubhumi, one of the leading newspapers of Kerala pointed at the psychological insight of his work... And it is about the lyrical touch of his language that Madhyamam stressed on...

Three of his short-fictions have been gone to big screen. Mazha peyyumbol(When it rains), Anamika, Snehapoorvam(With Affection) are the movies which are based on his writings.