Lily Brett

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Lily Brett (born September 5, 1946 in Germany) is an award-winning Australian novelist, essayist and poet who now lives in New York City. Much of her writing deals with her Jewish family semi-biographically and with her feelings about the Holocaust.

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[edit] Biography

During World War II Brett's parents Max and Rose survived six years in the Łódź ghettos in Poland, before being taken to Auschwitz concentration camp where they were eventually separated. It took them six months to find each other again after the war ended in 1945. Brett was born in a displaced persons' camp in Germany in 1946. She was aged two (1948) before her parents were able to leave Germany and immigrate to Melbourne, Australia.

By the mid-1960s, Brett was a young journalist working with Molly Meldrum at Go-Set, Australia's most renowned music magazine of the time, and on Uptight one of the first weekly TV shows devoted to pop music. In the summer of 1967, Brett, then 19, travelled to America to cover the Monterey International Pop Festival, then onto the U.K., before returning to Australia.

In 1989 Brett moved to New York City with her second husband, painter David Rankin, and her three children.

In 2006, Lily Brett appeared on ABC's Foreign Correspondent program.

[edit] Selective bibliography

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[edit] Poetry

[edit] Awards and nominations

  • 1986 - Mattara Poetry Prize - "Poland"
  • 1987 - Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry - The Auschwitz Poems
  • 1987 - Commonwealth Writers' Prize Award in 2000 for the Best Book from the South-East Asia and South Pacific Region- Too Many Men

[edit] External links

Lily Brett's official website: [1]

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