Catherine Jinks (born 1963) is an

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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 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Government with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry. As of 2013, it is reportedly Australia's richest literary p ...

, the

Aurealis Award The Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. Only Australians are eligible for the award. History The Aurealis Award was established in 1995 by ...

for science fiction, the

IBBY Australia The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) is a non-profit organisation to bring books and children together. In 1966, IBBY Australia was established and Ena Noël OAM became its first president and remained in this role for over 20 ...

Ena Noel Encouragement Award, the Adelaide Festival Award, and the

Davitt Award The Davitt Awards are literary awards which are presented annually by the Sisters in Crime Australia association. The awards are named in honour of Ellen Davitt (1812–1879) who wrote Australia's first mystery novel, ''Force and Fraud'' in 186 ...

for crime fiction.

Early life

Jinks was born in

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, and grew up in

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where her father worked as a patrol officer. She went to

Ku-ring-gai High School Ku-ring-gai High School (abbreviated as KHS), formerly Ku-ring-gai Creative Arts High School (1996–2016), is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school with a speciality in creative and performing a ...

in Sydney, where the library was named after her in 2007.

Books

*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)

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

Awards

* 1996 winner Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers – ''Pagan's Vows'' * 1997 co-winner

Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and WASFF to published works to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers". To qualify, a work must have been fi ...

– ''Eye to Eye'' * 1998 winner Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers – ''Eye to Eye'' * 2001 winner Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers – ''You'll Wake the Baby'' * 2006 winner

— Best Young Adult Book – ''Evil Genius'' * 2009 winner

— Best Young Adult Book – ''Genius Squad'' * 2014 winner Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers – ''A Very Unusual Pursuit'' * 2020 shortlisted

Colin Roderick Award The Colin Roderick Award is presented annually by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at Queensland's James Cook University for "the best book published in Australia which deals with any aspect of Australian life". It was first presente ...

— ''Shepherd''

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