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Victor Kelleher


(Victor Michael Kitchener Kelleher)
Australia (b.1939)

aka Veronica Hart

Victor Kelleher is an Australian author. Victor was born in London and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. Kelleher received a teaching degree in Africa and has taught in Africa, New Zealand and Australia. While in New Zealand, he began writing part time, prompted by homesickness for Africa. He moved to Australia in 1976, with his South African wife, Allison, and taught at the University of New England, in Armidale, New South Wales, before moving to Sydney to write full time. Many of the books he has written have been based on his childhood and his travellings in Africa.

Kelleher has won many awards for his books, such as the Australian Children's Book Award.
 
 
Series
Parkland
   Parkland (1995)
   Earthsong (1996)
   Fire Dancer (1996)
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Gibblewort the Goblin (with Stephen Michael King)
   Goblin at the Zoo (2005)
   Goblin at the Beach (2007)
   Goblin in the Bush (2008)
   Goblin in the Rainforest (2008)
   Goblin in the Snow (2008)
   Goblin on the Reef (2008)
   Goblin in the City (2008)
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Novels
   Forbidden Paths of Thual (1979)
   Voices from the River (1979)
   The Hunting of Shadroth (1981)
   Master of the Grove (1982)
   Africa and After (1983)
   Papio (1984)
   The Green Piper (1985)
   The Beast of Heaven (1985)
   Taronga (1986)
   The Makers (1987)
   Baily's Bones (1988)
   Em's Story (1989)
   The Red King (1989)
   Brother Night (1990)
   Wintering (1990)
   Del-Del (1991)
   Micky Darlin' (1992)
   Rescue! an African Adventure (1992)
   To The Dark Tower (1992)
   Where the Whales Sing (1994)
   The House That Jack Built (1994) (as by Veronica Hart)
   Double God (1995) (as by Veronica Hart)
   Red Heart (1996)
   Storyman (1996)
   Slow Burn (1997)
   Into the Dark (1999)
   The Ivory Trail (1999)
   Riding the Whales (1999)
   Billy the Baked-Bean Kid (2002)
   The Grimes Family (2004)
   Dogboy (2005)
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Collections
   The Traveller (1988)
   Collected Stories (1999)
   Return To Earth (2016) (with others)
   The Light Fantastic (2021) (with others)
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