The Writers of Wales Database

BUNKO, ANTHONY

Website: www.anthonybunko.com

Anthony Griffiths, who writes as Anthony Bunko, was born in Merthyr in 1962. He is a part–time author, poet and songwriter. He began writing in 2003, with his first novel The Tale of the Shagging Monkeys receiving rave reviews in the national press.

Selected Publications:
The Tale of the Shagging Monkeys: The Siege of El Rancho (Self–published, 2003)
The Belt of Kings (Self-published, 2005)
Boy, Girl, Fruitcake, Flower (Self-published, 2006)
Working up to the Slaughterhouse (Self-published, 2007)
Demons and Cocktails: My Life with the Stereophonics (John Blake Publishing, 2009)
Hugh Jackman: The Biography (John Blake Publishing, 2010)
Hugh Laurie: The Biography (John Blake Publishing, 2010)

Contributed to:
All Roads Lead to Merthyr (contributor) (Self-published, 2006)
Never Mind the White Socks Here’s Merthyr Tydfil (contributor) (Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, Arts Division, 2007)
Merthyr Writing (contributor) (Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, Arts Division, 2008)