Catherine Jinks aggregated collection of literary papers

fonds

1993-2022

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Drawings

9661072

9.42 metres of textual material (51 boxes and 3 outsize items)

Catherine Jinks is an award-winning children's author and illustrator, and adult author, born in Brisbane in 1963, who grew up in Papua New Guinea. She graduated from the University of Sydney with a degree (B.A. Hons) in medieval history, and has worked for Westpac and as a journalist, full-time writer, lecturer, workshop presenter, and writer-in-residence at Australian schools. Her works include the Pagan’s Chronicles series (such as Pagan’s Crusade) inspired by medieval history, Allie’s Ghosthunters series (such as Eglantine: A ghost story) and the Genius series (such as Evil Genius), among many others. Catherine is a four-time winner of the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year award, and has also won a Victorian Premier’s Literature Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, the Ena Noel Award for Children’s Literature and an Aurealis Award for Science Fiction. In 2001 she was presented with a Centenary Medal for her contribution to Australian Children’s Literature.

COLLECTION 1:
Catherine Jinks literary papers, 1994-2001

COLLECTION 2:
Catherine Jinks further literary papers, 1993-2009

COLLECTION 3:
Catherine Jinks further literary papers, 2004-2015

COLLECTION 4:
Catherine Jinks further literary papers, 1997-2022

http://catherinejinks.com (accessed 2/10/2019) and Library correspondence file