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Catherine Jinks

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Catherine Jinks (born 1963) is an Australian writer of fiction books for all age groups. She has won many awards including the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award four times, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Aurealis Award for science fiction, the IBBY Australia Ena Noel Encouragement Award, the Adelaide Festival Award, and the Davitt Award for crime fiction.[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A34825 Austlit - Catherine Jinks]{{subscription required}}

Early life

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Jinks was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and grew up in Papua New Guinea where her father worked as a patrol officer. She went to Ku-ring-gai High School in Sydney, where the library was named after her{{Cite web |date=2010-12-19 |title=Our Facilities |url=http://www.kcahs.nsw.edu.au/our-school/our-facilities |access-date=2024-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219143318/http://www.kcahs.nsw.edu.au/our-school/our-facilities |archive-date=19 December 2010 }} in 2007.

Books

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  • This Way Out (1991)
  • The Future Trap (1993)
  • Witch Bank (1995)
  • The Secret of Hermitage Isle (1996)
  • An Evening with the Messiah (1996)
  • Little White Secrets (1997)
  • Eye to Eye (1998)
  • The Horrible Holiday (1998)
  • Piggy in the Middle (1998)
  • The Stinking Great Lie (1999)
  • The Inquisitor (2000)
  • The Notary (2000)
  • You'll Wake the Baby (2000)
  • What's Hector McKerrow Doing These Days (2000)
  • Bella Vista (2001)
  • The Rapture (2001)
  • The Gentleman's Garden (2002)
  • Daryl's Dinner (2002)
  • The Road (2004)
  • Spinning Around (2004)
  • The Secret Familiar (2006)
  • Katie & Cleo Move In (2007)
  • Living Hell (2007)
  • Dark Mountain (2008)
  • The Paradise Trap (2011)
  • Saving Thanehaven (2013)
  • Theophilus Grey and the Demon Thief (2015)
  • Shepherd (2019)
  • Shelter (2021)
  • The Attack (2021){{Col-break}}

=Fiction series=

;Pagan's Chronicles

  • Pagan's Crusade (1992)
  • Pagan in Exile (1994)
  • Pagan's Vows (1995)
  • Pagan's Scribe (1995)
  • Pagan's Daughter (2006)

;Allie's Ghost Hunters

  • Eglantine (2002)
  • Eustace (2003)
  • Eloise (2004)
  • Elysium (2007)

;Genius

  • Evil Genius (2005)
  • Genius Squad (2008)
  • The Genius Wars (2009)

;Support Group

  • The Reformed Vampire Support Group (2009)
  • The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group (2010)

;City of Orphans

  • A Very Unusual Pursuit (2013)
  • A Very Peculiar Plague (2013)
  • A Very Singular Guild

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Awards

References

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Further reading

  • Cohen, J. (1993). An Interview with Cathy Jinks. Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia, 37(1), 9-10.
  • Masson, S. (1995). An Interview with Catherine Jinks about Witch Bank. Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia, 39(4), p. 12

External links

{{Portal|Children's literature |Speculative fiction |Australia}}

  • {{official website |catherinejinks.com }}
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  • {{LCAuth|n97018915|Catherine Jinks|38|}}

{{Children's Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers}}

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Category:1963 births

Category:Australian women children's writers

Category:Living people

Category:Writers from Brisbane