Adele Horin
Adele Horin | |
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Born | Adele Marilyn Horin 25 January 1951 Perth, Western Australia |
Died | 21 November 2015 Sydney, New South Wales |
(aged 64)
Occupation | Journalist and columnist |
Nationality | Australian |
Education | Applecross Senior High School |
Alma mater | University of Western Australia |
Notable awards | Walkley 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]
Early life[edit]
Born in 1951, Horin grew up in Applecross, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth.[5] 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.[6]
Career[edit]
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.[6] 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.[7] In Australia, after a period with the ABC Radio National Life Matters programme she joined The Sydney Morning Herald.[6] 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]
Retirement[edit]
On 25 August 2012 she announced, in her column, 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[edit]
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.[8] She died on 21 November 2015, aged 64.[9]
Awards[edit]
In 1981 Horin 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.[6] She was a Walkley Award finalist again in 1996[10] and 2008.[11]
In 1991 she won the Australian Human Rights Commission Metropolitan Newspapers Award for her weekly column My Generation.[12]
In 1999 she was a finalist for Strewth! magazine's Earnest Bastard of the Year Award.[13]
In 2011 she 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.[14][15]
In 2010 Stephanie Brown's portrait of Adele Horin was selected for the Archibald Prize Salon des Refusés.[16]
References[edit]
- ^ "Death Notice: Adele HORIN". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
- ^ a b Horin, Adele (25 August 2012). "For richer and poorer, the battle goes on". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ a b Henningham, Nikki (20 October 2008). "Horin, Adele". The Australian Women's Register. The National Foundation for Australian Women. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ Glover, Richard (2005). Desperate Husbands. Pymble, N.S.W.: HarperCollinsPublishers. ISBN 978-0732282509.
- ^ Spender (ed.), Dale (1981). Heroines. Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin. ISBN 0140146970.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ Horin, Adele (27 April 2010). "Graduation address – Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences". UTS occasional address. University of Technology, Sydney. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ "Dear reader - my luck has run out, adelehorin.com.au; accessed 22 November 2015.
- ^ The Age, Writer Adele Horin dies after battling cancer, theage.com.au; accessed 22 November 2015.
- ^ Horin, Adele (25–27 Sep 1996). "The Lost Children". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ Horin, Adele; Debra Jopson (10 December 2007). "Millions lost in fierce legal war on the poor". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2012-04-02.
- ^ "1991 Human Rights Medal and Awards Winners". Australian Human Rights Commission. 24 November 1991. Retrieved 2012-04-02.
- ^ "Australia's Most Earnest". Workers Online (27). 20 August 1999. Retrieved 2012-04-02.
- ^ "Human Rights Awards 2011". Australian Human Rights Commission. 9 December 2011. Retrieved 2012-04-02.
- ^ Horin, Adele (23 July 2011). "Sad truth behind closed doors". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2012-04-04.
- ^ Brown, Stephanie (19 March 2010). "Portrait of Adele Horin selected for 2010 Salon des Refusés". Stephanie Brown. Retrieved 2012-04-02.
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