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Born: 5 Sep 1946 Germany
Gender: Female
Expatriate
Heritage: Jewish; Polish
Arrived in Australia: 1948
Departed from Australia: 1991
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Full biographical information is only available to AustLit Subscribers. A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows: Lily Brett was born in a displaced persons' camp in Germany. Her Jewish parents were survivors of the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz. Her family moved to Melbourne in 1948, and in 1961 Brett began her literary career writing for the Australian rock magazine Go-Set. The Auschwitz Poems (1986) received great critical acclaim for its expression of the feelings and experiences of second-generation Holocaust survivors, a theme which is prevalent throughout her writing. Her terse, short poems elliptically....To gain full access to the AustLit database become a subscriber. |
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Last amended:
23 Sep 2008