Lin Van Hek
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Lin Van Hek (born 1944) (aka Lin Van Hecke) is an Australian writer and performance artist, and is the co-founder of a literary-music performance group called Difficult Women.
Van Hek was born in Melbourne but lived in Europe and India for some years. Returning to Australia in the 70s, she built a stone house on the Brass Knocker Creek near the Wadbilliga River and state forest in the southeastern corner of New South Wales.
Van Hek was the lead singer of the electro-dance band called Skin the Wig in the 80s. She co-wrote and sang the song Intimacy which was part of The Terminator film. She recorded a solo CD River of Life featuring songs of New Zealand writer, Kath Tait.
Van Hek works with a group of women in North Vietnam designing, manufacturing and trading in ethical, non-exploitative hand-embroidered silk garments and textiles.
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)