Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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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 concerning her brother's suicide and her engagement to, and the death of, the late GQ editor, Michael VerMeulen. Her best known interview - with Warwick Capper, a retired Australian footballer, and his wife - is included in Best Australian Profiles.
She was commissioned to write part of artist [David Bromley]'s upcoming film, [I Could Be Me].
Biography
Gambotto-Burke was born and raised on Sydney's North Shore, the first and only daughter of [Giancarlo Gambotto] (whose lawsuit against WCP Ltd. is still featured in corporate law exams).
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.
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.
In 1989, she returned to Sydney, where she resumed freelancing for The Australian and began conducting interviews and writing literary criticism.
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 an interview, 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."
Bibliography
- Lunch of Blood (Random House, 1994)
- An Instinct for the Kill (HarperCollins, 1997)
- The Pure Weight of the Heart (Orion, 1999)
- The Eclipse (Broken Ankle Books, 2004)
Television
Gambotto-Burke has appeared on programs such as Beauty & The Beast (Channel Ten, Foxtel), The Midday Show (Channel 9), Meet the Press (SBS).External link
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