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Occupation(s)
  
singer-writer

Role
  
Writer · linvanhek.com

Name
  
Lin Hek


Website
  
www.linvanhek.com

Associated acts
  
Difficult Women

Partner
  
Joe Dolce (1980–)

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Books
  
Katherine Mansfield's Black Paper Fan

Similar People
  
Joe Dolce, Tahnee Cain and the Tryan, Jay Ferguson, Brad Fiedel

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Lin Van Hek (born 1944) (aka Lin Van Hecke) is an Australian writer, member of the Society of Women Writers and is the co-founder of a literary-music group called Difficult Women.

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Lin van Hek & Joe Dolce 'Frida Kahlo' A VER QUÉ SALE


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 has 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.

Awards

  • 1988 winner of the Melbourne The Age Short Story Award
  • References

    Lin Van Hek Wikipedia