Lily Brett | |
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 Lily Brett at 2024 Berlin Film Festival | |
| Born | Lilijahne Brajtsztajn 5 September 1946 Feldafing displaced persons camp, Bavaria, Germany |
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| Language | English |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Years active | 1966–present |
| Notable works | The Auschwitz Poems, Things Could Be Worse, Just Like That, Too Many Men, You Gotta Have Balls, Lola Bensky |
| Notable awards | C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry, Commonwealth Writers' Prize Prix Médicis étranger |
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| Children | 3 |
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| lilybrett | |
Lily Brett OAM (born Lilijahne Brajtsztajn 5 September 1946) is an Australian novelist, essayist and poet. She lived in North Carlton and then Elwood/Caulfield (suburbs of Melbourne) from 1948 to 1968, in London 1968–1971, Melbourne (1971–1989) and then moved permanently to New York City. In Australia she had an early career as a pop music journalist, including writing for music magazine Go-Set from May 1966 to September 1968. From 1979 she started writing poems, prose fiction and non-fiction. As a daughter of Holocaust survivors, her works include depictions of family life including living in Melbourne and New York. Four of her fictional novels are Things Could Be Worse (1990), Just Like That (1994), Too Many Men (2001) and You Gotta Have Balls (2005).