Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Quick Facts

Full Name	Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Sep 19, 1965(1965-09-19)
Age	59
Birthplace	Sydney
Country	Australia
Birth City	New South Wales
Horoscope	Virgo

Antonella Gambotto-Burke Biography

Antonella Gambotto-Burke is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on September 19, 1965 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Antonella Gambotto Burke (nee Antonella Gambotto, born 1965) is an Australian-born author and journalist who lives in Kent, England, known for her writing on the sex industry, death and motherhood.

The introduction to Gambotto Burke’s work included in The Best Australian Profiles reads: “Gambotto is probably the closest Australia has come to having a profile writer who is a celebrity in their own right … and from the early 1990s readers became as interested in Gambotto-Burke as they were in the people she profiled.”

She was a contributor to the late Peter Blazey’s anthology of short stories Love Cries: Cruel Passions, Strange Desires (1995); in The Sydney Morning Herald, Gail Cork described Gambotto’s contribution as “outstanding” and in Who, Margaret Smith noted its “darkly sinister” overtones. “The Astronomer,” a short story presaging many of the themes in her first novel, was published in

1989. Eight years later, Gambotto-Burke’s first novel, The Pure Weight of the Heart (also featuring an astronomer), was published by Orion Publishing in London, and went to number six on the Sydney Morning Herald’s best-seller list. It was also Tatler’s book of the month. Author Matthew Condon elaborated in The Age: “Her razor eye for the architecture of pretension and her ability to record untidied dialogue, especially the way it can betray the human mind and soul, have made her an object of fear and derision. To have been ‘Gambottoed’ is to have had a vein opened.”

After her brother Gianluca, a Macquarie Bank executive, committed suicide in 2001, Gambotto-Burke changed. She began reading obsessively on death and on suicide, “trying to make sense of the experience, trying to become big enough to let go of my brother. That’s what bereavement is about – surrendering the memory, the relationship.” To this end, she relocated to Byron Bay, where she wrote The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide, a book about her brother’s suicide and her engagement to, and the death of, late British GQ editor Michael VerMeulen. In a November 2003 interview with a British 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.”

In 1989 she returned to Sydney in 1989, and began writing for The Weekend Australian as a writer for feature profiles and a literary critic. She started creating articles on behalf of The South China Morning Post, The Globe and Mail in Canada, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Vogue and other international magazines. Channel Nine Entertainment Director Richard Wilkins stated”that “if you’re on her wavelength, the interview is a most enjoyable experience. If not, it could be quite disconcerting. The key is to be open and honest with her.”

Antonella Gambotto-Burke Net Worth

Antonella Gambotto-Burke is one of the richest Journalist from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Antonella Gambotto-Burke 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1984 at the age 19 she moved to London in 1984, where she was employed as a musician critic for NME and she was able to follow the direction of an editor she published under pseudonyms Antonella Black and Ginger Meggs. Her critique of Cliff Richard’s performance prompted him to file a lawsuit against the magazine. Also, she composed “A Man Called Horse” A Man Called Horse,” a unflattering cover story about alternative rocker Nick Cave, in which she chronicled his stupor caused by heroin (in in retaliation, he composed songs about her as well as British journalist Mat Snow entitled “Scum” A photo of her as well as Snow was published alongside Snow’s version of the story within The Guardian). Gambotto Burke wrote about her incident in September of 2006 and the story was reprinted on three occasions within Nick Cave: Sinner, Saint. This Cave interview, as well as the details of the interview are also available within her memoir Lunch of Blood, while Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds included a cover that included “Scum” on their 2005 box set, B-Sides and Rarities.

Gambotto-Burke was awarded the Britain Cosmopolitan’s New Journalist of the Year award in 1988. In the is also when she was engaged to UK GQ Editor Michael VerMeulen. In 1989, she returned to Sydney after the break-up in her marriage to VerMeulen who passed away from a fatal overdose of cocaine at 38 years old in 1995. Prior to leaving London she contributed to The Independent on Sunday, particularly a feature on cardiothoracic surgeons.

Lunch of Blood (Random House, 1994), her first book and first anthology, peaked at number six on the best-seller lists. The Newcastle Herald observed that Gambotto-Burke’s “command of language is delicious to the point where one wonders which came first, her wish to display her ability or the desire to share her impressions.” In 1997, An Instinct for the Kill, her second anthology, was published to mixed reviews by HarperCollins. (Age critic Katherine Wilson singled out the Capper interview as “laugh-out-loud” funny.)

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Gambotto-Burke, who returned to England in 2017, has in recent years changed her journalistic focus. Her writing about human trafficking has been syndicated around the world. She is also a widely published literary critic and essayist, and has written a number of lead news stories for The Australian’s business pages about lawyers and legal issues. Most recently, Gambotto-Burke’s focus has been on pornography and gender inequality. In 2018, Gambotto-Burke was identified alongside Virginia Woolf, Hillary Clinton and Nobel prizewinner Malala Yousafzai as one of the world’s most inspiring feminists. Creation Records Founder and Oasis manager Alan McGee, in a 2019 interview with Gambotto-Burke, described her as “forever surprising”.

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