Lin Van Hek
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| Background information | |
| Born | October 4, 1944 Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
| Occupations | Artist, musician |
| Website | www |
Lin Van Hek (aka Lyn van Hecke, born Lyn Whitehead) is an Australian writer, singer, painter, designer and artist. She was a vice-president of the Society of Women Writers and co-founder of the literary-music group Difficult Women.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Van Hek was born in Melbourne and lived in Europe and India while she was growing up.
Career
[edit | edit source]Van Hek co-wrote and sang the song "Intimacy" for the soundtrack of the film The Terminator (1984).[1] She later recorded a solo CD River of Life featuring songs of New Zealand writer Kath Tait. More recently, she has performed with her partner, Joe Dolce in Difficult Women, that began with a series of feminist literary salons van Hek held in the 1980s.[2]
Van Hek also worked for over two decades with a group of women in North Vietnam designing, manufacturing and trading in hand-embroidered silk garments and textiles with a focus on fair trade and worker ethics.[3]
Van Hek is a prolific painter and writer. She is described by Booker Prize-winning author Keri Hulme as writing "like an angel giving the devil her due."[4]
Awards
[edit | edit source]- 1988 winner of the Melbourne The Age Short Story Award
- 2015 Best Australian Poems, edited by Geoff Page.
- 2016 & 2017 winner of the Society of Women Writers short story contest.
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]Novels
[edit | edit source]- The Hanging Girl (Misfit Books, 1988)
- The Ballad of Siddy Church (Spinifex, 1997)
- Katherine Mansfield's Black Paper Fan (Difficult Women, 2010)
Short fiction
[edit | edit source]- Collections
- The Slain Lamb Stories (Independent, 1979)
- Anna's Box : selected short stories (Difficult Women, 2006)
- Stories
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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| Mrs Black | 2003 | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | ||
| The Goddess Paddock | 2004 | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | ||
| This Most Privileged of Madnesses | 2013 | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | ||
| Mikel's Christmas | 2017 | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | ||
| Mrs Black | 2017 | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). | ||
| Herman and Manning | 2019 | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
Selected book reviews
[edit | edit source]| Year | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
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External links
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