2004 School Magazine

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Faculties:English

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WRITER IN RESIDENCE >

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> The English Faculty was delighted and privileged to welcome Dr Venero Armanno as our Writer in Residence for 2004. In August, eighteen of our Year I I and Year 12 students participated in an intellectually stimulating and extremely successful

He 15 the author of nine novels, many of which have been published internationally in many languages, a measure of his international recognition and reputation He also won the prestigious 2002 Premiers Literary Award for Best Fiction. He has written many screenplays, three illustrated books for younger readers, and his short stories have been arithologised in numerous publications The students who had the very real

pleasure of working with Dr Armanno in a series of intensive sessions were unequivocal in their enthusiasm, not only for his writing and his teaching talents, but also for the man himself - warm, witty. extremely talented and singularly unpretentious. Dr Armanno proved to be one of our most popular Writers in Residence ever

series of Creative Writing Master Classes with Dr Armanno, who also lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland.

Dr R Cotwil! Director