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'''Lin Van Hek''' (born '''Lyn Van Hecke''') is an Australian writer, singer and artist. She |
'''Lin Van Hek''' (born '''Lyn Van Hecke''') is an Australian writer, singer and artist. She was a previous Vice-President of the Society of Women Writers and is the co-founder of the literary-music group [[Difficult Women]]. |
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Lin Van Hek (born Lyn Van Hecke) is an Australian writer, singer and artist. She was a previous Vice-President of the Society of Women Writers and is the co-founder of the literary-music group Difficult Women.
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 |
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| Mrs Black | 2017 | Van Hek, Lin (December 2017). "Mrs Black". Quadrant. |
Book reviews
| Year | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
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| 2020 | Van Hek, Lin (January–February 2018). "Poetry of wildness". Quadrant. 62 (1–2 [543]): 85–86. | Petit, Pascale (2017). Mama Amazonica. Bloodaxe. |
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Talbot, Danielle (17 February 1995). "Difficult Women Have Their Day". The Age. Melbourne, Australia. p. 18.
- ^ staff. "Lin van Hek profile". Society of Women Writers: Victoria. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ staff (1997). "The Ballad of Siddy Church". Feminist Bookstore News. 20: 104.
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