Lin Van Hek

Lin Van Hek (born Lyn Van Hecke) is an Australian writer, singer and artist. She is Vice-President of the Society of Women Writers and is the co-founder of the literary-music group Difficult Women.

Lin Van Hek
Background information
Occupation(s)Artist, musician
Associated actsDifficult Women
Websitewww.linvanhek.com

Early life

Van Hek was born in Melbourne and lived in Europe and India while she was growing up.

Career

Van Hek co-wrote and sang the song "Intimacy" for the film, The Terminator.[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, and a team of post-feminist artists as Difficult Women, a live performance art team that began with a series of feminist literary salons van Hek held in the 1980s.[2]

She 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]

She 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
  • 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
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Novels
  • The Hanging Girl (Misfit Books, 1988)
  • The Ballad of Siddy Church (Spinifex, 1997)
  • Katherine Mansfield's Black Paper Fan (Difficult Women, 2010)

Short fiction
Collections
  • The Slain Lamb Stories (Independent, 1979)
  • Anna's Box : selected short stories (Difficult Women, 2006)
Stories
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
Mrs Black 2017 Van Hek, Lin (December 2017). "Mrs Black". Quadrant.

Book reviews
Year Review article Work(s) reviewed
2020 Van Hek, Lin (January–February 2018). "Poetry of wildness". Quadrant. 62 (1–2 [543]): 85–86. Petit, Pascale (2017). Mama Amazonica. Bloodaxe.

References
  1. Sommerlad, Joe (1 July 2019). "SONY WALKMAN AT 40: HOW THE MILLION-SELLING GADGET TOOK MUSIC PORTABLE AND INSPIRED THE MIXTAPE". The Independent. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  2. Talbot, Danielle (17 February 1995). "Difficult Women Have Their Day". The Age. Melbourne, Australia. p. 18.
  3. staff. "Lin van Hek profile". Society of Women Writers: Victoria. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  4. staff (1997). "The Ballad of Siddy Church". Feminist Bookstore News. 20: 104.
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