Caroline Overington
| Caroline Overington | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1970 (age 46–47) Melbourne |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | Deakin University (BA) |
| Website | |
| www.carolineoverington.com | |
Caroline Overington (born 1970) is an Australian journalist and author. She began her journalistic career with Fairfax Media, writing for The Age Suburban Newspaper Group. In 1993 she was recruited to write for The Age as a sports journalist. In 2002, Fairfax appointed her a foreign correspondent and she moved to New York. On returning to Australia in 2006, Overington took up a position with News Limited as a senior journalist for The Australian. Between 2012 and 2016, Overington was associate editor for The Australian Women's Weekly magazine, before returning to The Australian in 2016.
Overington won the News Limited Sir Keith Murdoch Prize for Journalism in 2006 and is a two-time Walkley Award winner. Other awards include the Blake Dawson Prize (2008) and the Davitt Award for Crime Writing (2015).
Overington has written ten books, including seven works of fiction. Her most recent title, The One Who Got Away, released by HarperCollins in April 2016, is a thriller novel set in California.
Overington was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1970. One of three children in her family, she grew up in Melton, Victoria and was educated at Melton South Primary School and Melton High School. She graduated from Deakin University with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in journalism.
Overington 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. She covered two Olympic and Paralympic games. 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.
So that Overington could take up a position as foreign correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, she and her young family, including twins born in 2000, moved to New York City in 2002. Her first book, Only in New York, published by Allen & Unwin in 2006, is a comedy based on her family's experiences in the United States.
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