Lin Van Hek

Lin Van Hek (born 1944) (aka Lin Van Hecke) is an Australian writer and painter, 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)singer-writer
Associated actsDifficult Women
Websitewww.linvanhek.com

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 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.

She is a prolific painter whose work is in great demand. Her paintings are exhibited formally at her gallery, Poet House, in Thornbury.

Awards
  • 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.
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