Awards

Over the course of her writing career Lily Brett’s fiction and poetry has been recognized with many awards:

Lily’s novel Too Many Men (first published in 1999) won the prestigious Commonwealth Writers' Prize Award in 2000 for the Best Book from the South-East Asia and South Pacific Region.

Lily’s previous novel Just Like That won the New South Wales Premier's Christina Stead Prize for best Australian work of fiction in 1995.

Her second work of fiction, What God Wants, received the 1992 Steele Rudd Award, Australia’s premier award for short story writing.

Lily Brett’s poetry has been similarly recognized with significant awards:

• The Mattara Poetry Prize for Poland and Other Poems in 1986
• The Auschwitz Poems won the 1987 Victorian Premier's C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for numerous other awards