Antonella Gambotto-Burke (née Antonella Gambotto, born 19 September 1965) is an Australian author and journalist.
Gambotto-Burke 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: A Memoir of Suicide, which has been published in four languages. Her best known comic interview – with Warwick Capper, a retired Australian footballer, and his wife – is included ...
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Antonella Gambotto-Burke (née Antonella Gambotto, born 19 September 1965) is an Australian author and journalist.
Gambotto-Burke 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: A Memoir of Suicide, which has been published in four languages. Her best known comic interview – with Warwick Capper, a retired Australian footballer, and his wife – is included in The Best Australian Profiles (Black Inc., 2004). "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", Matthew Ricketson wrote in 2005. The Sydney Morning Herald named her as a high-profile member of Mensa International. She is a teetotaler, has never owned a television, and has a bat tattoo on her right shoulder. "I was going to have the Harley Davidson logo, but [the tattooist] convinced me I'd regret it," she...
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