Give Brett an Oscar.
The Australian

Reading Lily Brett is like spending time with a uniquely clever, loving and sympathetic friend – who is also an enormously gifted writer
Good Reading Magazine

Brett’s high wire act spanning the tragedy of the past and the comedy of everyday events qualifies as true art.
News, Austria

Lily Brett is the critically acclaimed author of the hilarious and moving novel You Gotta Have Balls, published in July 2006 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins.

Lily Brett has won many awards for her writing, which consists of four novels, a short story collection, three works of non-fiction and six volumes of poetry. Click here for more information on each of her books.

Born in Germany to survivors of the Auschwitz death camp, Lily Brett migrated with her parents to Australia in the late 1940s. She has lived in New York since 1989 with her husband and three children.