Venero Armanno

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.

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.

Venero Armanno appeared in 2 events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Awards The Australian/Vogel Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript), 1992: highly commended for The Lonely Hunter Warana Writers' Awards, Steele Rudd Award, 1993: runner-up for Jumping at the Moon Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel, 1995: runner-up for My Beautiful Friend Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, 1999: nominated for Firehead Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Fiction Book, 2002: winner for The Volcano Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Courier Mail People's Choice Award for Best Book of the Year, 2002: shortlisted for The Volcano One Book One Brisbane, 2003: shortlisted for The Volcano One Book One Brisbane, 2004: shortlisted for Firehead Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Courier Mail People's Choice Award for Best Book of the Year, 2018: shortlisted for Burning Down Ditmar Award for Best Novel, 2021: shortlisted for The Crying Forest