Joshua Newton (born 1969 in Kerala, India) is an Indian writer of stories and an acclaimed screenwriter and a former journalist.

Biography

Joshua Newton (also mentioned as Joshua Newtonn in some places) is an international award-winning Indo-Anglian writer based in India. Two of his screenplays, Ritu and Offseason (Kerala Cafe) were made into films by the national award-winning filmmaker Shyamaprasad in India (former in Malayalam and Telugu and latter in Malayalam). His non-fiction and journalism have appeared in over 60 publications around the world.

He is also the recipient of 2005 Evangelical Press Association award (second) in Interview Article section for the feature story on Gladys Staines. ( "She Chose to Forgive" ) published in Charisma magazine and the 2004 Luis Valtuena VII International Humanitarian Photography Award (Special Prize) from Medicos Del Mundo a major global NGO based in Spain. He is the first Asian to win these honours.

His critically acclaimed short story, Taj Mahal, was published by Rupa Publications in the collection of modern Indian fiction named Why We Don't Talk.

Newton has just completed writing his first narrative non-fiction book, The Book of People: Ten Life Reports From India. In it he brings to life the unexplored worlds of ten 'ordinary' Indians in the grand tradition of Joseph Mitchell and John McPhee.

Before turning full-time to creative writing, he worked fourteen years as a journalist and reported from India for over 60 print and web publications around the world. He has also been the features editor of Men's Health (India), UAE Digest (Dubai Media City), a rewrite editor with Business World, and the coordinating editor of New Indian Express (Kerala). Over the two decades he has written on a wide variety of themes ranging from underworld goon to Indian textiles.