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| Occupation(s) | Artist, musician |
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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.
Van Hek was born in Melbourne and lived in Europe and India while she was growing up.
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 in Difficult Women, 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]
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| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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| Mrs Black | 2003 | Van Hek, Lin (2003). "Cat Tales: The Meaning of Cats in Women's Lives". Spinifex Press. | ||
| The Goddess Paddock | 2004 | Van Hek, Lin (2004). "Horse Dreams: The Meaning of Horses in Women's Lives". Spinifex Press. | ||
| This Most Privileged of Madnesses | 2013 | Van Hek, Lin (May 2013). "This Most Privileged of Madnesses". Quadrant. | ||
| Mikel’s Christmas | 2017 | Van Hek, Lin (June 2017). "Mikel's Christmas". Quadrant. | ||
| Mrs Black | 2017 | Van Hek, Lin (December 2017). "Mrs Black". Quadrant. | ||
| 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. |
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