Adele Horin

Adele Horin
BornAdele Marilyn Horin
(1951-01-25)25 January 1951
Perth, Western Australia
Died21 November 2015(2015-11-21) (aged 64)
Sydney, New South Wales
OccupationJournalist and columnist
NationalityAustralian
EducationApplecross Senior High School
Alma materUniversity of Western Australia
Notable awardsWalkley Award (1981)

Adele Marilyn Horin (25 January 1951 – 21 November 2015)[1] was an Australian journalist. She retired in 2012 as a columnist and journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald.[2] A prolific and polarising writer on social issues,[3] she was described as "the paper's resident feminist".[4]

Life and career

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Early life

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Born at St Anne's Hospital, Mt Lawley in 1951, Horin grew up in Applecross, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth.[5][6] Educated at Applecross Primary School and Applecross Senior High School, she began her journalistic career as a cadet at The West Australian newspaper, while earning a Bachelor of Arts degree part-time at the University of Western Australia.[7]

Career

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Horin worked as a correspondent in New York, initially for The Australian Women's Weekly and Cleo magazines, and then for The Sydney Morning Herald.[7] She later worked in Washington, New York and London covering politics, society and economics for The National Times newspaper, considered in its day to be a pioneering exponent of investigative and social issues journalism.[8] In Australia, after a period with the ABC Radio National Life Matters programme she joined The Sydney Morning Herald.[7] She had a Saturday column on the paper's Comment page. Normally taking a left wing view point, Horin's writing usually dealt with social issues.[3]

In 2010 Stephanie Brown's portrait of Adele Horin was selected for the Archibald Prize Salon des Refusés.[9]

In her column on 25 August 2012, Horin announced her retirement from The Sydney Morning Herald "not to spend the day in a dressing gown but to think, write, participate, and to engage with my generation in a different way".[2]

Death

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On 15 November 2015, Horin announced via her blog the return of lung cancer, which had been treated aggressively the year before. She indicated she was too unwell to continue to write.[10] She died on 21 November 2015, aged 64.[11]

Awards

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  • 1981 - Received a Walkley Award (Print) for Best Feature in a Newspaper or Magazine, at The National Times, Sydney, for a series of articles about sex in Australia.[7] She was a Walkley Award finalist again in 1996[12] and 2008.[13]
  • 1991 - Won the Australian Human Rights Commission Metropolitan Newspapers Award for her weekly column My Generation.[14]
  • 1999 - Was a finalist for Strewth! magazine's Earnest Bastard of the Year Award.[15]
  • 2011 - Received an Australian Human Rights Commission media award for Sad truth behind closed doors, a series of stories on abuse and neglect of people with disability living in licensed boarding houses.[16][17]

References

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  1. ^ "Death Notice: Adele HORIN". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 November 2015. Archived from the original on 29 February 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b Horin, Adele (25 August 2012). "For richer and poorer, the battle goes on". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 1 December 2012. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  3. ^ a b Henningham, Nikki (20 October 2008). "Horin, Adele". The Australian Women's Register. The National Foundation for Australian Women. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  4. ^ Glover, Richard (2005). Desperate Husbands. Pymble, N.S.W.: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0732282509.
  5. ^ "Family Notices". The West Australian. Perth, WA. 27 January 1951. p. 35. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  6. ^ Spender, Dale, ed. (1981). Heroines. Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin. ISBN 0140146970.
  7. ^ a b c d "Do newspapers have a future and who cares?" (PDF). Newsletter – Jessie Street National Women's Library. 20 (28): 1. May 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  8. ^ Horin, Adele (27 April 2010). "Graduation address – Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences". UTS occasional address. University of Technology, Sydney. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  9. ^ Brown, Stephanie (19 March 2010). "Portrait of Adele Horin selected for 2010 Salon des Refusés". Stephanie Brown. Archived from the original on 5 February 2014.
  10. ^ Horin, Adele (15 November 2015), "Dear reader - my luck has run out", adelehorin.com.au, archived from the original on 28 May 2016, retrieved 22 November 2015
  11. ^ Gardiner, Stephanie (22 November 2015). "Writer Adele Horin dies after battling cancer". The Age. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 25 December 2015.
  12. ^ Horin, Adele (25–27 September 1996). "The Lost Children". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  13. ^ Horin, Adele; Jopson, Debra (10 December 2007). "Millions lost in fierce legal war on the poor". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 9 July 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
  14. ^ "1991 Human Rights Medal and Awards Winners". Australian Human Rights Commission. 24 November 1991. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
  15. ^ "Australia's Most Earnest". Workers Online (27). 20 August 1999. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016.
  16. ^ "Human Rights Awards 2011". Australian Human Rights Commission. 9 December 2011. Archived from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
  17. ^ Horin, Adele (23 July 2011). "Sad truth behind closed doors". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011.
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