Venero Armanno is an Australian novelist. He was born in

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of Sicilian parents. He received a BA from the

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, and later an MA and PhD in Creative Writing from the

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. Armanno completed ten unpublished manuscripts over fourteen years before being accepted for publication. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication & Arts at the

, where he received the 2004 award for excellence in teaching. Venero Armanno appeared in 2 events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in

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, Australia.

Awards

* One Book One Brisbane, 2004: shortlisted for ''Firehead'' * One Book One Brisbane, 2003: shortlisted for ''The Volcano'' * Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Fiction Book, 2002: winner for ''The Volcano'' *

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for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Horror, 1995: runner-up for ''My Beautiful Friend'' * Warana Writers' Awards, Steele Rudd Award, 1993: runner-up for ''Jumping at the Moon'' *

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award ''The Australian''/Vogel Literary Award is an Australian literary award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35. The prize money, currently A$20,000, is the richest and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript i ...

(for an unpublished manuscript), 1992: highly commended for ''The Lonely Hunter''

Bibliography

Novels

* ''The Lonely Hunter'' (1993) * ''Romeo of the Underworld'' (1994) * ''My Beautiful Friend'' (1995) * ''Strange Rain'' (1996) * ''Firehead'' (1999) * ''The Volcano'' (2001) * ''Candle Life'' (2006) * ''The Dirty Beat'' (2007) * ''Black Mountain'' (2012) * ''Burning Down'' (2017) * ''The Crying Forest'' (2021)

Short story collections

* ''Jumping at the Moon'' (1992) * ''Travel Under Any Star'' (2016)

Young adult

* ''The Ghost of Love Street'' (1997) * ''The Ghost of Deadman's Beach'' (1998)

Children's

* ''The Very Super Adventures of Nic and Naomi'' (2002)

References

1959 births Living people 20th-century Australian novelists 21st-century Australian novelists Australian male novelists Australian male short story writers Australian people of Sicilian descent Queensland University of Technology alumni 20th-century Australian short story writers 21st-century Australian short story writers 20th-century Australian male writers 21st-century Australian male writers {{Australia-writer-stub