Catherine Jinks is an Australian author. She has written more than 30 books for all ages, and has won many awards, including the Children's Book Council Of Australia Book of the Year Award three times, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award

Victorian Premier's Literary Award

The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Governmentwith the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry....

, the Aurealis Award

Aurealis Award

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:...

 for Science Fiction, the IBBY Australia

IBBY Australia

The International Board on Books for Young People 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 years....

 Ena Noel Encouragement Award, and the Davitt Award

Davitt Award

The Davitt Awards are presented by the Sisters in Crime Australia association. The awards are presented for Australian crime fiction, by women, for both adults and young adults. They were established in 2001.-Previous winners:...

 for Crime Fiction.

Personal life

Catherine was born in Brisbane, Queensland. She grew up in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...

, where her father worked as a patrol officer. She went to high school in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

. In 2006, her alma mater, Ku-ring-gai High School, named its library after her. From 1982 to 1986, Catherine studied at the University of Sydney

University of Sydney

The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

, graduating with an honours degree in medieval history. She then worked on Westpac

Westpac

Westpac , is a multinational financial services, one of the Australian "big four" banks and the second-largest bank in New Zealand....

 Banking Corporation’s staff magazine for approximately seven years. In 1992 she married Peter Dockrill, a Canadian journalist; in 1993 she and her husband left Australia for a brief spell in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

, where she began to write full time. They returned to Australia in 1994, and Catherine gave birth to her daughter Hannah in 1997. Since 1998, she and her family have been living in Leura, New South Wales

Leura, New South Wales

Leura is a suburb in the City of Blue Mountains Local Government Area 109 km west of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the series of small towns stretched along the Blue Mountains railway line and Great Western Highway that bisects the Blue Mountains National Park. It is...

. To date, she has written forty one different books.

Children's books

• The Secret of Hermitage Isle (1997)
• The Horrible Holiday (1998)
• The Stinking Great Lie (1999)
• You'll Wake the Baby, illustrated by Andrew McLean (2000)
• Daryl's Dinner (2002)
• Katie and Cleo Move In, illustrated by Andrew McLean (2007)

Allie's Ghost Hunters series

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

Young Adult books

• This Way Out (1991)
• The Future Trap (1993)
• Witch Bank (1995)
• Eye to Eye
  Eye to Eye (novel)
  Eye to Eye is a 1997 young-adult science fiction novel by Catherine Jinks. It follows the story of Jansi who while scavenging in the desert comes across a damaged star ship which contains a computer that has the ability to project thought, expression and friendship.-Background:Eye to Eye was first...
  
  (1997)
• Piggy in the Middle (1998)
• What's Hector McKerrow Doing These Days? (also known as To Die For in the UK (2000)
• The Rapture (2001)
• Living Hell (2007)
• Babylonne (2008) (also a companion to the Pagan Chronicles)
• The Reformed Vampire Support Group (2009)
• The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group (2011) (also a companion to The Reformed Vampire Support Group)

Pagan Chronicles

• Pagan's Crusade (1992)
• Pagan in Exile (1994)
• Pagan's Vows (1995)
• Pagan's Scribe (1995)
• Pagan's Daughter (also known as Babylonne (2007)

Evil Genius series

• Evil Genius
  Evil Genius (novel)
  Evil Genius is a novel written by Catherine Jinks and published in 2005 by Allen & Unwin, Australia. The book follows the story of Cadel Piggot, a child prodigy.-Synopsis:...
  
  (2005) (red cover)
• Genius Squad
  Genius Squad
  Genius Squad is a novel written by Catherine Jinks published in 2008 by Allen & Unwin, Australia. It is the second book in a series that follows the main character Cadel Piggot, a genius young boy living in Australia.-Summary:...
  
  (2008) (green cover)
• Genius Wars
  Genius Wars
  Genius Wars is the third book of Australian author Catherine Jinks' Evil Genius series, after Evil Genius and Genius Squad. The book's tagline is "It takes a genius to fight a genius". The book is available in both Australia and the United States....
  
  (2009) (blue cover)

Adult books

• An Evening with the Messiah (1996)
• Little White Secrets (1997)
• The Inquisitor (1999)
• The Notary (2000)
• Bella Vista (2001)
• The Gentlemen's Garden (2002)
• Spinning Around (2004)
• The Road (2004)
• The Secret Familiar (2006)
• Deck Free E-novel (2007)
• The Dark Mountain (2008)

External links

• Catherine Jinks official website