Brett, Lily, 1946-
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Poet and novelist.
Lily Brett was born in Germany and migrated to Melbourne, Australia with her parents in 1948. Max and Rose, Brett's parents, survived the Lodz ghetto and Auschwitz concentration camp during World War 2. Brett worked as a popular music journalist from the mid 1960s for Go-Set, travelled to America to cover the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, continued to the UK and then returned to Australia. Her first book The Auschwitz poems (1986) was awarded the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry in 1987.
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https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85297193
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Authors, Australian
Novelists, Australian
Women authors, Australian
Women poets, Australian
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