Anvar Ali is a Malayalam poet who wrote Mazhakkalam(Kottayam: D. C. Books, 1999), which is a collection of 27 poems. This book won the Kanakasree Award of Kerala Sahithya Academy

Kerala Sahithya Academy

Kerala Sahitya Akademi or Academy for Malayalam literature is an autonomous body established to promote Malayalam language and literature. It is situated in Thrissur, Kerala in India. The academy was inaugurated on October 15, 1956, by Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, the former king of...

 in 2000 . Further, Ali is a film writer who has co-written the scenario of Maargam, a version of the famous Malayalam short fiction Pithrutharppanam with Rajiv Vijayraghavan and Dr. S. P. Ramesh.