Lily Brett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Lily Brett

Australian writer

Date of Birth: 05-Sep-1946

Place of Birth: Feldafing, Bavaria, Germany

Profession: writer, essayist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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Lily Brett (born Lilijahne Brajtsztajn 5 September 1946, Feldafing displaced persons camp, Bavaria) is an Australian novelist, essayist and poet.
She lived in North Carlton and then Elwood/Caulfield (suburbs of Melbourne) from 1948-1968, in London 1968-71, 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).