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| birth_place = Melbourne| death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Journalist, author| language = | children = | spouse = | partner = | nationality = Australian| website = carolineoverington.com}}Caroline Overington (born 1970) is an Australian journalist and author. Overington has written 13 books. She has twice won the Walkley Award for investigative journalism, as well as winning the Sir Keith Murdoch prize for journalism (2007), the Blake Dawson Waldron Prize (2008) and the Davitt Award for Crime Writing (2015).

Life and career

Overington was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1970.NEWS,weblink Inside story with Caroline Overington, Penny, Harrison, Herald Sun, Melbourne, 4 April 2012, She began her journalism cadetship with The Melton Mail Express, and other titles in The Age Suburban Newspaper Group, covering courts, local council, and school fetes. Melbourne businessman and editor, Alan Kohler, recruited Overington to write for The Age in 1993, where she became a sports writer. Several of her pieces were selected for the Best Australian Sports Writing and Photography anthologies, published by Random House in the 1990s. She was awarded the Annita Keating Trophy for Female Journalism in Sport.{{citation needed|date=August 2009}}In 2002, Overington assumed a position as foreign correspondent in New York for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Her first book, Only in New York, published by Allen & Unwin in 2006, is a comedy based on her family's experiences with young twins in the United States.NEWS, Baby love in the Big Apple, 11 November 2006, The Weekend Australian, Antonella, Gambotto-Burke, Antonella Gambotto-Burke, 10, While based in the US, Overington's work included an investigation into an Australian literary scandal involving Norma Khouri's book Forbidden Love. Together with Malcolm Knox, Overington won a Walkley Award for investigative journalism in 2004 for her research into the mysterious life of Jordanian-American-Australian author Norma Khouri.List of 2004 Walkley winners from official Walkleys website {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060512034805weblink |date=12 May 2006 }} Both Overington and Knox appeared in Forbidden Lie$, a documentary on the scandal by Anna Broinowski that won a Walkley Award and two Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards.NEWS, Macquarie University, Forbidden Lie$ wins two AFI Awards,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160514021809weblink">weblink 14 May 2016, 27 November 2007, Following her return to Australia in 2006, Overington gained a position as senior journalist with the News Limited newspaper The Australian.NEWS,weblink Caroline Overington to rejoin The Australian, 4 March 2016, Darren, Davidson, The Australian, She covered the AWB scandal, in which AWB Limited (formerly the Australian Wheat Board), owned by the Australian Government, paid $290 million in kickbacks to the regime of Saddam Hussein, in contravention of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Humanitarian Program. Overington's book Kickback: Inside the Australian Wheat Board Scandal, released by Allen & Unwin in 2007, provided an account of the scandal.NEWS,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160514075454weblink">weblink 14 May 2016, Kickback, 18 May 2007, The Sydney Morning Herald, Fairfax Media, Natasha, Cica, During the 2007 federal election campaign, Overington made headlines for her conduct in the Wentworth electorate although no adverse findings against Overington were made.WEB, 2007-11-13, Danielle Hoare, Wentworth independent claims journalist offered inducements for preferences,weblink 1 December 2022, ABC NewsRadio, Overington was said to have been involved in an altercation with the Labor candidate George Newhouse, who claimed Overington had "whacked" him, while Overington said she had pushed him away with an open hand. The Australian published an apology to Newhouse from Overington over what as described as "an encounter" in December 2007.NEWS, 4 December 2007, Apology to George Newhouse, 2, The Australian, On Saturday morning, 24 November 2007, Caroline Overington had an encounter with the Labor candidate for Wentworth, Mr George Newhouse, in circumstances that she sincerely regrets. She hopes that she and Mr Newhouse can put this incident behind them and she wishes him all the best., NEWS, 4 December 2007, Journo Sorry for striking candidate, Brisbane Times, Fairfax Media,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160304233150weblink">weblink 4 March 2016, NEWS, Simons, Margaret, 4 December 2007, First jokes now apologies, Crikey.com.au,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160303232326weblink">weblink 3 March 2016, Overington's first novel, Ghost Child was released in 2009 to both literary and popular acclaim. The book was short-listed for the Davitt Prize for Best Adult Crime Novel.WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160304060121weblink">weblink 4 March 2016, AustLit: Caroline Overington (69 works by), Her second novel, I Came To Say Goodbye, was short-listed for Book of the Year and Fiction Book of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards in 2010. The novel Matilda is Missing, released in 2011, told the tale of a divorce custody case, through the eyes of a court-appointed psychologist.NEWS,weblink Divorce and all its pain, news.com.au,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160514082432weblink">weblink 14 May 2016, 28 October 2011, Blanche, Clark, In 2014, Overington's book Last Woman Hanged was released, documenting the results of her five-year investigation into the conviction and execution of Louisa Collins in New South Wales in 1889. In the book, Overington claims that Collins, who was tried four times for murder, suffered a miscarriage of justice and may well have been innocent.NEWS, Kingston, Beverley, Beverley Kingston, 2014-12-05, Review: Story of last woman hanged in NSW a grim indictment,weblink 2019-05-11, The Sydney Morning Herald, Overington linked the trial to Australian colonial history and to the early suffragette movement in Australia.In 2017, an article that Overington had written about Rebel Wilson for Woman's Day was found to be libellous.NEWS, Davidson, Helen, 2017-09-13, Rebel Wilson wins $4.56m damages from Bauer in record libel settlement,weblink 2024-02-01, The Guardian, en-GB, 0261-3077, Her book, Missing William Tyrrell (2020), concerns the real-life case of William Tyrrell, who disappeared from Kendall on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales in 2014. Overington has said she wrote the book because "now is not the time to give up" looking for him.WEB, Overington, Caroline, 24 February 2020, "Why I Can't Rest Until I Find William Tyrrell",weblink 8 March 2020, whimn.com.au, The book was inspired by a 9-part Australian crime podcast called Nowhere Child she hosted on the Tyrrell case, produced by The Australian, that aired from July to September 2019.NEWS, 2019-09-13, Nowhere Child,weblink 2020-09-02, The Australian, In 2021, she was appointed literary editor at The Australian newspaper.WEB, 2021-07-02, Overington appointed literary editor at The Australian,weblink live, 2021-07-09, Books+Publishing,weblink 2 July 2021,

Personal life

Overington has homes in Bondi, Australia and Santa Monica, California.WEB, Kevin's Comeback,weblink Q&A, 10 October 2011, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2017-02-02, 12 October 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20111012140252weblink">weblink dead,

Awards and prizes

• 2004 – Joint winner of the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism for the Norma Khouri Investigation{{citation|url=http://walkleys.com/awards/walkley-winners-archive/|publisher=The Walkley Foundation|title=Walkley Winners Archive}}
• 2006 – Awarded the second annual Sir Keith Murdoch Award for JournalismNEWS,weblink 18 November 2006, The Australian, The Australian{{', s team snares four News Awards}}
• 2007 – Winner of the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism for coverage of the AWB Kickback Scandal
• 2008 – Winner of the Blake Dawson Waldron Prize for Business LiteratureNEWS, Overington receives top honour for book on AWB scandal, Lauren, Wilson, The Australian, 5, 11 April 2008, {{citation|url=http://www.ashurst.com/about-ashurst.aspx?id_Content=7473&pageNo=2|title=Ashurst business literature prize: Past winner and nominees|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322070705weblink|archive-date=22 March 2016}}
• 2015 – Winner of the Davitt (Non-Fiction) Award for Crime WritingWEB, Davitt Awards 2015,weblink Angela Savage, 2015-12-04, Angela, Savage, 9 September 2015,

Works

Non-fiction

• BOOK, 1741149614, Allen & Unwin, Only in New York: How I took Manhattan (With the Kids), 2006,
• BOOK, 9781741751949, Allen & Unwin, Kickback: Inside the Australian Wheat Board Scandal, 2007,
• BOOK, 9780732299729, HarperCollins, Last Woman Hanged, 2014,
• BOOK, 9781460758687, HarperCollins, Missing William Tyrrell, 2020,

Fiction

• BOOK, 9781863256803, Random House Australia, Ghost Child, 2009,
• BOOK, 9781864711578, Random House Australia, I Came to Say Goodbye, 2010,
• BOOK, 9781742750385, Bantam, Matilda is Missing, 2011,
• BOOK, 9781742750422, Bantam, Sisters of Mercy, 2012,
• BOOK, 9781742758015, Random House Australia, No Place Like Home, 2013,
• BOOK, 9780857983572, Random House Australia, Can You Keep a Secret?, 2014,
• BOOK, The One Who Got Away, 2016, HarperCollins, 9780732299743,
• The Lucky One. HarperCollins. 2017. {{ISBN|9780732299767}}.
• BOOK, 9781460755822, HarperCollins, The Ones You Can Trust, 2018,
• One Chance. Audible Originals. 2021.WEB, Overington, Caroline, One Chance,weblink Audible (service), Audible Originals, 14 December 2021,
• The Cuckoo's Cry. HarperCollins. 2021. {{ISBN|9781460760499}}
• Looking for Eden. Audible Originals. 2023.

References

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External links

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