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Antonella Gambotto

Antonella Gambotto

 

JOURNALISM
- Literary critic: Sydney Morning Herald, 1991 - 1997
- Literary critic: Australian, 1997 - 2002
- Senior Feature Writer: Australian, Australian Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Cleo, Diver, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, HQ, Independent on Sunday Review, Mode, Penthouse, Playboy, 1989 - 2003
- Rock critic: New Musical Express, RAM, Sounds, Zig Zag


BOOKS (NON FICTION)
- Lunch of Blood, p/b, Random House, 1994
- An Instinct for the Kill, p/b, HarperCollins, 1997
- The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide, p/b, 2003


BOOKS (FICTION)
- The Pure Weight of the Heart, p/b, Phoenix House (UK), 1999


AWARDS
- Cosmpolitan UK New Journalist of the Year Award 1988


INTERESTS
- Her husband and daughter
- Literature
- Astanga Vinyasa


CURRENT PROJECTS
- New book underway
- Studying yoga philosophy

 

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Tori Amos: Under the Doublethink: Tori Amos

Interview by Antonella Gambotto, Elle (Australia), 1996

ON STAGE, SHE silences. The impact of her voice – that ethereal, that demoniacal, that rare instrument – is overwhelming; it is, in its own ...

Nick Cave: A Man Called Horse

Interview by Antonella Gambotto, ZigZag, January 1985

I AM CRUSHED between a maniac with a mohican and a screaming string-singleted Scot in the audience - sweating, drunken, belching, retching, hopeless, drugged - ...

Icehouse: The Man Who Fell To Surf: Icehouse's Iva Davies

Book Excerpt by Antonella Gambotto, An Instinct For The Kill, 1997

IVA DAVIES not despicable or brutal or awful or poisonous or bizarre, but he is tense. Extremely tense. his laughter rings out like a gunshot ...

Kiss: Leer Of The White Worm: An Interview with Gene Simmons

Interview by Antonella Gambotto, Elle, 1995

LOVINGLY RETAINED in the bowels of all newspaper libraries and, I imagine, in thousands of crammed scrapbooks throughout the world, is a certain photograph of ...

Morrissey, Smiths, The: Antonella Strikes Again: Morrissey Revisited

Interview by Antonella Gambotto, ZigZag, May 1985

Absurd Person Singular Antonella grapples with the shining Morrissey, now larger than life than ever before. Is there any offal truth to discover? ...

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