Anwar Ali (poet)

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 Aadiyaadi Alanja Marangale (Ye Trees, Swaying Ramblers), collection of poems, 2009; Eternal Sculptures, Poetry Collection in English, 2007; and, Njan Rappai, Novella, 1995. He has translated 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 Balasubramaniam. He has also translated a series of modern Anglophone African poems and poems from other Indian languages like Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, and Assamese into Malayalam.[3] Produced under the banner of Image Commune(2015), his debut documentary film on Attoor Ravi Varma,[4] was selected for International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala(2015), Mumbai International Film Festival(2016) and SIGNS Festival, 2015. He has co-written the screenplay of Margam(2003), an acclaimed Malayalam feature film and co-produced a documentary series on the history of Malayalam cinema for Doordarshan. He also contributed for Shasthra Kouthukam,[5] a science programme in Doordarshan, India (1991–1995), on behalf Centre for Development of Imaging Technology.

He has co-edited Pakshikkoottam, a parallel journal and publication for literature, and Kavithakku Oru Idam (A Space for Poetry), a journal for New Poetry. He was the Chief Editor of Seventy Five Years of Malayalam Cinema, produced by Kerala Film Academy (2003).

He has Participated in the Writer-in-Residence Program of Literature Translation Institute, South Korea on 2007 and attended the Afro-Asian Literature Festival, 2007, Jonju, Korea. He has also participated in various poetry/book/film festivals which include Asselieh Film Festival, Morocco, 2004, Paju Book festival, South Korea, 2014 Sharjah International Book Fair 2014 Young Poets Meet, New Delhi, 1997, Kavi Bharati, Bhopal, 2005, and The New Voices, Trivandrum, 2004.

He had his school education in St.Mary's HighSchool, Kesavadasapuram, Trivandrum. In school level competitions, he proved his talent as a poet by winning prizes in inter district school Kalolsavam.

• 1994– Janalakkarikile Penkutty (Translation of Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window )
• 1995– Njan Rappai (Novella)
• 1999– Mazhakkalam (Poems)
• 2007 - Eternal Sculptures (Poetry Collection in English)
• 2009– Aadiyaadi Alanja Marangale (Poems)
• 2010– Oru Gramathile Nadi (Translation of Poetry Collection by Sirpi Balasubramaniam)