Peter Pohl (born 5 December 1940) is a Swedish author and former director and screenwriter of short films.

From 1966 until his retirement in 2005, he was lecturer in Numerical analysis at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

He lost his father during World War II and moved to Sweden with his mother in 1945, where he started school in 1947.

Pohl soon returned to university in order to graduate at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, where he received his doctorate in Numerical analysis in 1975.

His writing career started in 1983 and two years later he published his first and most successful book, translated in English as Johnny, My Friend.

Those are true and about his own life[6] Those start with Regnbågen har bara åtta färger (The rainbow has only eight colours).

In this book, Pohl described his early childhood, starting immediately after he moved to Sweden, until he was eight years old.

The fourth book, Vi kallar honom Anna, he describes one year, particularly one summer, where he, part of the summercamp organisation, observes how a teenage boy is severely bullied.

Examples are Glittras uppdrag, a fairy tale about an angel that protects a six-year-old boy, and Malins kung Gurra, written for a contest organised by publisher Rabén & Sjögren.