Anwar Ali (poet)

Anwar Ali also known Anvar Ali (born 1 July 1966) is an Indian poet, lyricist, translator, and documentary filmmaker,[1][2] he has been contributing poems and poetic studies in leading literary journals and periodicals of Kerala since 1984; Mazhakkalam (The Rainy Season), 1999, his first collection of poems established him as one of the prominent voices in contemporary Malayalam poetry; his poems have been translated into various Indian and foreign languages and are included in several anthologies of Malayalam as well as Indian poetry of the post-modern phase. His other important works include Atiyaati Alanja Marangale (Ye Trees, Swaying Ramblers), collection of poems, 2009, Eternal Sculptures, Poetry Collection in English, 2007, and, I Rappai, Novella, 1995.

Anwar Ali
Born	Anvar Ali (1966-07-01)1 July 1966 Trivandrum, Kerala
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Writer, poet, lyricist
Awards	Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist (2018)

He has translated the English version of Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window, 1994, the renowned Japanese work, into Malayalam and has co-translated Oru Gramathile Nadi (A river in a village), 2010, the poetry Collection by Sirpi Balasubrhamaniam, the renowned Tamil poet, with Abdul Jaleel; also translated a series of modern Anglophone African poems and poems from other Indian languages like Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, and Assamese into Malayalam. Maruvili (Call from the Other Shore)[3] produced under the banner of Image Commune(2015), his debut documentary film on Attoor Ravi Varma,[4] the renowned Indian Poet writes in Malayalam,[5] is a notable work in the genre of Biopic and selected for IDSFFK, 2015 (International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala) MIFF, 2016 Mumbai International Film Festival and SIGNS Festival, 2015. He has co-written the scenario of Margam(2003), an internationally acclaimed Malayalam feature film, co-produced a documentary series on the history of Malayalam cinema for Doordarshan, India (1995–97) and wrote for Saasthra Kouthukam,[6] the popular science programme in Doordarshan, India (1991–1995), on behalf of C Dit Centre for Development of Imaging Technology. Also wrote a number of scripts for C Dit documentaries.