Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Antonella Gambotto-Burke (born September 19, 1965 in Sydney, Australia, nee Antonella Gambotto) is an author and journalist. She has written one novel, The Pure Weight of the Heart, two anthologies, Lunch of Blood and An Instinct for the Kill and a memoir, The Eclipse, which has been published in three languages. The Eclipse concerns her brother's suicide and her engagement to, and the death of, the late GQ editor, Michael VerMeulen. Her best known comic interview - with Warwick Capper, a retired Australian footballer, and his wife - is included in Best Australian Profiles. "The best profiles lodge deep in the public mind, such as ... Antonella Gambotto's cheerfully dopey Warwick and Joanne Capper, which presaged by years the arrival of Kath & Kim," wrote a critic in The Age on June 18, 2005. Image File history File linksMetadata Antonella_Gambotto-Burke_2. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Antonella_Gambotto-Burke_2. ... September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... The Pure Weight of the Heart is Antonella Gambotto-Burkes first novel and third book. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... GQ can refer to several things: Gentlemens Quarterly, a mens magazine The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Equatorial Guinea GQ, a replacement Quake 1 game engine This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same... Michael VerMeulen (10 December 1956 - August 28, 1995) was an American magazine editor. ... Warwick Capper (born 12 June 1963) is a former Australian Rules Football full-forward who played for the Victorian/Australian Football Leagues Sydney Swans with a short stint at the Brisbane Bears. ... Kath & Kim is an Australian television comedy series shown on the ABC network. ... The Age is a broadsheet daily newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. ...

Gambotto-Burke was commissioned to write the interlinking love stories in artist David Bromley's upcoming film, I Could Be Me (narrated by Hugo Weaving), and her essay, The Language of the Dead, will appear in My Life As A Teenager, the charity anthology published by Allen & Unwin in 2007. Hugo Weaving Hugo Wallace Weaving (born April 4, 1960) is a Nigerian-born Australian film and stage actor. ... George Allen & Unwin Ltd. ...

Biography

Gambotto-Burke was born and raised on Sydney's North Shore, the first child and only daughter of Giancarlo Gambotto (whose lawsuit against WCP Ltd. changed Australian corporate law, made the front pages of The Australian Financial Review and The Australian, and is still featured in corporate law exams). This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... North Shore refers to more than one geographic area: North Shore, New Zealand, a city in the Auckland conurbation, New Zealand North Shore (Sydney), a suburban region of Sydney, Australia North Shore (Victoria), a suburb of Geelong, Australia North Shore (Lake Superior), the area of Minnesota, USA and Ontario, Canada... The Australian Financial Review is the leading business newspaper in Australia. ... The Australian (informally referred to as The Oz) is a national daily broadsheet newspaper published by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ...

She was first published in The Sydney Morning Herald at the age of fifteen - a satire of poet Les Murray's An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow, later included in Michelle Field's anthology - and in The Australian at the age of eighteen. Her first short story was published in literary magazine Billy Blue in July, 1982. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Leslie Allan Murray (b. ... The Australian (informally referred to as The Oz) is a national daily broadsheet newspaper published by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... Billy Blue or William Blue, the man, arrived in Sydney as a convict in 1801. ...

In 1984 she moved to London, where she was employed as a music critic by NME. Her review of Cliff Richard's concert inspired him to sue the NME. She also wrote the ZigZag cover story of alternative rock star Nick Cave, in which she documented his heroin-induced stupor (in retaliation, he wrote a song about her entitled Scum). This interview, and the story behind it, was later included in her anthology, Lunch of Blood. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a music magazine in the UK which has been published weekly since March 1952. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a music magazine in the UK which has been published weekly since March 1952. ... A zigzag is a pattern made up of many small corners at an acute angle, tracing a path between two parallel lines; it can be described as both jagged and fairly regular. ... Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 2005. ...

She won UK Cosmopolitan magazine's New Journalist of the Year Award in 1988. That same year, she became engaged to the UK GQ editor Michael VerMeulen, who died from a cocaine overdose at the age of 38 in 1995. Look up cosmopolitan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... GQ can refer to several things: Gentlemens Quarterly, a mens magazine The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Equatorial Guinea GQ, a replacement Quake 1 game engine This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same... Michael VerMeulen (10 December 1956 - August 28, 1995) was an American magazine editor. ...

In 1989, she returned to Sydney, where she resumed contributing to The Weekend Australian as a feature profile writer and senior literary critic, and began writing for The South China Morning Post, The Globe and Mail, Harper's Bazaar, Men's Style, and other international publications. On June 19, 2004, the Sydney Morning Herald named her as a high-profile member of Mensa International. This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... The Australian is a national daily broadsheet newspaper published by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... The Globe and Mail is a large English language national newspaper based in Toronto, Canada, and printed in seven cities across Canada. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Harpers & Queen. ... ... Mensa International is the largest, oldest, and most well-known high IQ society in the world. ...

After her brother committed suicide in 2001, she relocated to Byron Bay, a renowned countercultural haven, where she began practising Astanga yoga and wrote The Eclipse. In a November 2003 interview with Yoga Magazine, she said: "I wanted to explain depression as a valid emotional response rather than as a disease ... I am not ashamed of my brother, and I do not see death as tragic - deliberate ignorance and fear are tragedies, not death." Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ... Cape Byron Lighthouse Tallow Beach looking south from the lighthouse Byron Bay (, ) is a town in the state of New South Wales on the eastern most point of the mainland of Australia. ... In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms are at odds with those of the social mainstream. ... A woman practising hatha yoga Yoga, meaning yoke in Sanskrit, is a family of ancient spiritual practices originating in India. ...

Gambotto-Burke returned to Sydney in 2004. She is now also a regular contributor to My Child magazine. Her column concerns life with her husband, Alexander Gambotto-Burke, a columnist for The Guardian in London and IT writer, and their daughter, born December 2005. The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...

Bibliography

1. Lunch of Blood (Random House, 1994)
2. An Instinct for the Kill (HarperCollins, 1997)
3. The Pure Weight of the Heart (Orion, 1999)
4. The Eclipse (Broken Ankle Books, 2004)

Anthologies

1. Shrinklit, edited by Michele Field (Penguin 1983)
2. Love Cries, edited by Peter Blazey (HarperCollins, 1995)
3. This I Believe: 100 Eminent Australians Explore Life's Big Question, edited by John Marsden (Random House 1996)
4. The Best Australian Profiles, edited by Matthew Ricketson (Black Inc 2004)

Film

1. I Could Be Me, directed by artist David Bromley (2007)

Television

Gambotto-Burke has appeared on programs such as Beauty & The Beast (Channel Ten, Foxtel), The Midday Show (Channel 9), Meet the Press (SBS), advertisements for Foxtel's Channel Red [now Channel V], and has performed cameos on Paul Fenech's SBS sitcom Pizza. Beauty and the Beast is an Australian panel television show that has appeared in numerous versions since the early days of Australian television. ... Ten Network logo Network TEN so called because it broadcasts on Channel TEN in most cities, is Australias third but possibly most profitable television network. ... Foxtel is a cable television and satellite television company in Australia, formed through a joint venture between Telstra and News Corporation. ... Midday (commonly referred to as The Midday Show) was a television show that aired on Australias Nine Network from 1985-1998. ... Channel 9 refers to several television stations, among them are: Nine Network, Australia Channel 9, Malaysia C9TV, Northern Ireland WCPO, Cincinnati, Ohio Channel 9, MSDN Channel 9 is also the name of a fictional television channel on the comedy sketch show series, The Fast Show This is a disambiguation page... Meet the Press (MTP) is a weekly television news show produced by NBC. It started as a radio show in 1945 as American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press, originating from WRC-AM in Washington. ... SBS can refer to: Special Book Services - SBS is the leading distributor of language teaching materials in Brazil Special Broadcasting Service - Australian government-funded Radio and TV network Shaken baby syndrome Said Business School - Oxford Universitys business school. ... Paul Fenech is a Maltese-Australian film and television maker from Sydney, Australia. ...

External link

• Personal website
• I Could Be Me