Adele Horin

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| birth_name = Adele Marilyn Horin

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| birth_place = Perth, Western Australia

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| death_place = Sydney, New South Wales

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| occupation = Journalist and columnist

| nationality = Australian

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| education = Applecross Senior High School

| alma_mater = University of Western Australia

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| awards = Walkley Award (1981)

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Adele Marilyn Horin (25 January 1951 – 21 November 2015){{cite news|title=Death Notice: Adele HORIN|url=http://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/smh-au/obituary.aspx?n=adele-horin&pid=176615939|access-date=24 November 2015|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=24 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160229151711/http://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/smh-au/obituary.aspx?n=adele-horin&pid=176615939|archive-date=29 February 2016}} was an Australian journalist. She retired in 2012 as a columnist and journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald. A prolific and polarising writer on social issues, she was described as "the paper's resident feminist".{{cite book|last1=Glover|first1=Richard|title=Desperate Husbands|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2005|location=Pymble, N.S.W.|isbn=978-0732282509}}

Life and career

=Early life=

Born at St Anne's Hospital, Mt Lawley in 1951, Horin grew up in Applecross, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth.{{cite news|title=Family Notices|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48148138|access-date=8 October 2016|work=The West Australian |date=27 January 1951|location=Perth, WA|page=35}}{{cite book|editor-last1=Spender|editor-first1=Dale|title=Heroines|publisher=Penguin|year=1981|location=Ringwood, Vic.|isbn=0140146970}} 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.{{cite journal|title=Do newspapers have a future and who cares?|journal=Newsletter – Jessie Street National Women's Library|date=May 2009|volume=20|issue=28|page=1|url=http://www.nationalwomenslibrary.org/forms/May%2009%20newsletter-web.pdf|access-date=22 November 2015|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305042309/http://www.nationalwomenslibrary.org/forms/May%2009%20newsletter-web.pdf}}

=Career=

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. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.gsu.uts.edu.au/graduation/speakers/2010/adele-horin.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321113813/http://www.gsu.uts.edu.au/graduation/speakers/2010/adele-horin.html|archive-date=21 March 2012|title=Graduation address – Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences|access-date=22 November 2015|last=Horin|first=Adele|date=27 April 2010|work=UTS occasional address|publisher=University of Technology, Sydney}} In Australia, after a period with the ABC Radio National Life Matters programme she joined The Sydney Morning Herald. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE2877b.htm|title=Horin, Adele|access-date=22 November 2015|last=Henningham|first=Nikki|date=20 October 2008|work=The Australian Women's Register|publisher=The National Foundation for Australian Women}}

In 2010 Stephanie Brown's portrait of Adele Horin was selected for the Archibald Prize Salon des Refusés.{{cite web | url = http://www.stephaniebrown.com.au/blog/2010/3/19/portrait-of-adele-horin-selected-for-2010-salon-des-refuses.html | title = Portrait of Adele Horin selected for 2010 Salon des Refusés | last = Brown | first = Stephanie | date = 19 March 2010 | publisher = Stephanie Brown|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140205182431/http://www.stephaniebrown.com.au/blog/2010/3/19/portrait-of-adele-horin-selected-for-2010-salon-des-refuses.html|archive-date=5 February 2014}}

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".{{cite news|first=Adele|last=Horin|title=For richer and poorer, the battle goes on|date=25 August 2012|url=http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/for-richer-and-poorer-the-battle-goes-on-20120824-24rpe.html|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|publisher=Fairfax Media|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121201013910/http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/for-richer-and-poorer-the-battle-goes-on-20120824-24rpe.html|archive-date=1 December 2012|access-date=22 November 2015}}

=Death=

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.{{citation|url=http://adelehorin.com.au/2015/11/15/dear-reader-my-luck-has-run-out |title=Dear reader - my luck has run out|website=adelehorin.com.au|access-date=22 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528140833/http://adelehorin.com.au/2015/11/15/dear-reader-my-luck-has-run-out/|archive-date=28 May 2016|date=15 November 2015|first=Adele|last=Horin}} She died on 21 November 2015, aged 64.{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/national/writer-adele-horin-dies-after-battling-cancer-20151122-gl4slc.html|newspaper=The Age|publisher=Fairfax Media|title= Writer Adele Horin dies after battling cancer|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225181943/http://www.theage.com.au/national/writer-adele-horin-dies-after-battling-cancer-20151122-gl4slc.html|archive-date=25 December 2015|first=Stephanie|last=Gardiner|date=22 November 2015}}

Awards

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. She was a Walkley Award finalist again in 1996{{cite news | first = Adele | last = Horin | title = The Lost Children | date = 25–27 Sep 1996 | newspaper = The Sydney Morning Herald}} and 2008.{{cite news | first1 = Adele | last1 = Horin |first2= Debra|last2= Jopson | title = Millions lost in fierce legal war on the poor | date = 10 December 2007 | url = http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/12/09/1197135289361.html?page=fullpage | newspaper = The Sydney Morning Herald |publisher=Fairfax Media | access-date = 2012-04-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160709231903/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/12/09/1197135289361.html?page=fullpage|archive-date=9 July 2016}}
1991 - Won the Australian Human Rights Commission Metropolitan Newspapers Award for her weekly column My Generation.{{cite web | url = http://www.hreoc.gov.au/hr_awards/previous_winners/1991.html | title = 1991 Human Rights Medal and Awards Winners | access-date = 2012-04-02 | date = 24 November 1991 | publisher = Australian Human Rights Commission|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829064322/http://www.hreoc.gov.au/hr_awards/previous_winners/1991.html|archive-date=29 August 2012}}
1999 - Was a finalist for Strewth! magazine's Earnest Bastard of the Year Award.{{cite journal | title = Australia's Most Earnest | journal = Workers Online | date = 20 August 1999 | issue = 27| url = http://workers.labor.net.au/27/d_review_strewth.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307025758/http://workers.labor.net.au/27/d_review_strewth.html|archive-date=7 March 2016}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.hreoc.gov.au/hr_awards/finalists_print_online.html |title=Human Rights Awards 2011 |access-date=2012-04-02 |date=9 December 2011 |publisher=Australian Human Rights Commission |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529022545/http://hreoc.gov.au/hr_awards/finalists_print_online.html |archive-date=29 May 2012 }}{{cite journal | title = Sad truth behind closed doors | newspaper = The Sydney Morning Herald | date = 23 July 2011 | first = Adele | last = Horin | url = http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/sad-truth-behind-closed-doors-20110722-1hsoo.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726032928/http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/sad-truth-behind-closed-doors-20110722-1hsoo.html|archive-date=26 July 2011|publisher=Fairfax Media}}