Anthony Sharwood

Anthony is senior writer for Australia’s biggest sports magazine Alpha. Otherwise, his CV is embarrassingly flimsy compared to the glittering array of intelligent, well-groomed, nation-shapers on this site. In 2000, Anthony wrote You Talkin’ To Me: the Diary of an Olympic Cabbie, an upbeat book about the Sydney Olympics as experienced from street level. The book became a play at Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre in 2008, which 12,000 people paid to see. OK, so it wasn’t Shane Warne The Musical, but let’s face it, the turnout was better than most Australian feature films. Anthony’s literary hero is Gerald Murnane and his favourite bird is the black cockatoo – any tail colour. Lastly, Anthony would like to point out that although this profile is in the third person, he actually wrote it himself.