Venero Armanno is an Australian novelist. He was born in Brisbane of Sicilian parents. He received a BA from the University of Queensland, and later an MA and PhD in Creative Writing from the Queensland University of Technology. Armanno completed ten unpublished manuscripts over fourteen years before being accepted for publication.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 University of Queensland, where he received the 2004 award for excellence in teaching.
Books in order of publication:
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)
In The Rays Slip Away (2025)
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)
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