Lin Van Hek (born 1944 as Lyn Whitehead) (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. Van Hek was born in Melbourne, residing in Europe and India for some years. 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.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Van_Hek
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