Lin Van Hek
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| Occupation(s) | singer-writer |
| Associated acts | Difficult Women |
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Lin Van Hek (born 1944) (aka Lin Van Hecke) is an Australian writer, member of the Society of Women Writers and is the co-founder of a literary-music group called Difficult Women.
Early life
Van Hek was born in Melbourne, residing in Europe and India for some years.
Career
Van Hek is a singer, songwriter, novelist, poet and a painter. She co-wrote and sang the song "Intimacy" for the film, The Terminator. She recorded a solo CD River of Life featuring songs of New Zealand writer, Kath Tait.
Lin Van Hek has worked for over two decades with a group of women in North Vietnam designing, manufacturing and trading in ethical, non-exploitative hand-embroidered silk garments and textiles.
She is an advocate of handmade houses and also lives half the year in a stone house on the Brass Knocker Creek near the Wadbilliga River and state forest in the southeastern corner of New South Wales.
Awards
- 1988 winner of the Melbourne The Age Short Story Award
Bibliography
Novels
- The Hanging Girl (Misfit Books, 1988)
- The Ballad of Siddy Church (Spinifex, 1997)
- Katherine Mansfield's Black Paper Fan (Difficult Women, 2010)
Short story collections
- The Slain Lamb Stories (Independent, 1979)
- Anna's Box : selected short stories (Difficult Women, 2006)
Short stories in anthologies
- Cat Tales: The Meaning of Cats in Women’s Lives, edited by Jan Fook, Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein (Spinifex Press, c2003)
- Horse Dreams: The Meaning of Horses in Women’s Lives, edited by Jan Fook, Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein (Spinifex Press, 2004)