Lily Brett
Australian writer · Australia · On the map · Writers · Born 1946 · age 80
Lily Brett is an Australian novelist, essayist and poet. She lived in North Carlton and then Elwood/Caulfield from 1948 to 1968, in London 1968-1971, Melbourne (1971-1989) and then moved permanently to New York City.
Lily Brett is read about 57 times a day, in 12 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 19 September 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?People around Lily
Family
Lily BrettPartners
Is this everyone?
Only relatives with a profile here are drawn, so a family can be larger than this. A line here can also be wrong. A marriage is drawn as ended only where its end is recorded, so a spouse drawn here may be a former one.
Correct this familyMedia & music
Photos 1
Awards
About this person
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).
Where to find them
The same award as Lily
Kate GrenvilleBoth received Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
David VannBoth received Prix Médicis étrangerSteven MillhauserBoth received Prix Médicis étrangerElizabeth JolleyBoth received Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
Dorothy Coade HewettBoth received Newcastle Poetry Prize
Helen GarnerBoth received Christina Stead Prize for Fiction