Popular blogger and journalist Adele Horin has died, a week after penning a moving post on her blog

POPULAR blogger and award-winning journalist Adele Horin has died after a battle with cancer.

APRIL 2001 : Journalist Adele Horin 04/01. pic ex Sydney Morning Herald. P/

FORMER Fairfax columnist Adele Horin has died at the age of 64 after a battle with cancer.

In her blog post, dated November 14 and titled ‘Dear reader, my luck has run out’, she said her lung cancer had “raged back”.

The Walkley Award-winning journalist said she attributed her success in life to luck. She was lucky to have been educated, lucky to have found love, lucky to have had children and lucky to have had a fulfilling career.

“As women tend to do, I’ve attributed my moderate successes in life to luck. Yes, hard work and intelligence do play a part, but luck stands out as queen of the trifecta.

“I’ve been so lucky in my love life – remaining friends with my first partner, while deeply loving my current partner of 30 years, the father of our two sons who I could not be more proud of. How did we raise such decent and interesting young men?

“I’ve been lucky in having a fulfilling career in journalism and when that finished to have started a blog which has brought me so close to many readers in a way I’ve not experienced before.

“But dear readers, my luck has run out. I’m not going to be one of those feisty octogenarians I so admired,” she said.

“The lung cancer detected in 2014, operated on and treated with chemotherapy, has raged back. “The prognosis is poor,” she said.

Horin, who was a Sydney Morning Herald social affairs journalist for 18 years, said in her last post that she would stop writing her blog, Coming of Age, because she was too sick.

“I want you to know what a privilege it has been to be part of such a thoughtful community,” she said.

“May you have the good luck to enjoy a vibrant and engaged long life.”

Horin died on Saturday.

She started her career as a cadet journalist at the West Australian newspaper in the ‘60s and became widely admired for giving a voice to the poor, abused and underprivileged.

Horin won a Walkley Award in 1981 for Best Feature in a Newspaper or Magazine, at The National Times, for a series of articles about sex in Australia.

After news of her declining health, many in public life and the media paid tribute to her.

Our thoughts are with @AdeleHorin who won a Human Rights Commission media award in 2011 for stories on disability https://t.co/vaE36t894m

— AusHumanRights (@AusHumanRights) November 16, 2015

Thank you @AdeleHorin for supporting me when I was a newly minted Commissioner. I am a wiser person and SDC because of you. All my love.

— Elizabeth Broderick (@LizBroderick) November 17, 2015

Our profession has lost a champion of those who needed one...Let alone those who loved her most RIP @AdeleHorin https://t.co/ux3HjaCNAO @smh

— Lisa Davies (@lisazdavies) November 22, 2015

About 11,270 people were diagnosed with lung cancer in Australia in 2012, making it the fifth most common cancer in the country.

It is most commonly diagnosed in people aged 60 years and older and tobacco smoking is a major risk factor associated with the cancer.

“I want to say it’s unfair. I never smoked; I’ve been too much the ‘good girl’ all my life,” Horan wrote.

“I hope for miracles and I look at Clive James with hope.”

Poet, cultural critic and novelist James stated he was “on limited time” when he was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2010. Despite the negative prognosis, James is still alive.

With AAP.