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Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Antonella Gambotto-Burke (née Antonella Gambotto, born 19 September 1965 is an Italian-Australian author, journalist and singer-songwriter based in England and known for her writing about sex, death and motherhood.
Gambotto-Burke is best known for her memoir The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide, and her memoir/maternal feminist polemics Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution and Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine. In 2004, The Sydney Morning Herald named her as a high-profile member of Mensa International.
She is the vocalist and co-songwriter with the British band MAMA ft. Antonella. In October 2025, her band was voted into the GRAMMY Awards first ballot categories of Best Rock Album for their debut album, Apex Predators, and Best New Artist.
Gambotto-Burke was born into a northern Italian Catholic family in North Sydney and lived in East Lindfield on Sydney's North Shore. She is the first child and only daughter of the late businessman Giancarlo Gambotto, whose High Court win against WCP Ltd. changed Australian corporate law, scuppered the NRMA float, made the Australian front pages, is featured in Oxbridge law exams, and was the subject of a book edited by Ian Ramsay, Professor of Law.
"I was raised to believe that I could achieve anything", Gambotto-Burke said in a North Shore Times cover story.
Gambotto-Burke was first published under the pseudonym "Clavis Lumen" in the Sydney Morning Herald at the age of sixteen: a satire of poet Les Murray's "An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow", which was later included in Michele Field's anthology Shrinklit: Australia's Classic Literature Cut Down to Size.
Her first short story was published in the first on-sale issue of the Australian literary magazine Billy Blue in July 1982.
Gambotto-Burke contributed to Peter Blazey's short story anthology Love Cries: Cruel Passions, Strange Desires (1995). In the Sydney Morning Herald, Gail Cork described her 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 novel The Pure Weight of the Heart (also featuring an astronomer-protagonist) 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 magazine's book of the month in the UK.
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Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Antonella Gambotto-Burke (née Antonella Gambotto, born 19 September 1965 is an Italian-Australian author, journalist and singer-songwriter based in England and known for her writing about sex, death and motherhood.
Gambotto-Burke is best known for her memoir The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide, and her memoir/maternal feminist polemics Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution and Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine. In 2004, The Sydney Morning Herald named her as a high-profile member of Mensa International.
She is the vocalist and co-songwriter with the British band MAMA ft. Antonella. In October 2025, her band was voted into the GRAMMY Awards first ballot categories of Best Rock Album for their debut album, Apex Predators, and Best New Artist.
Gambotto-Burke was born into a northern Italian Catholic family in North Sydney and lived in East Lindfield on Sydney's North Shore. She is the first child and only daughter of the late businessman Giancarlo Gambotto, whose High Court win against WCP Ltd. changed Australian corporate law, scuppered the NRMA float, made the Australian front pages, is featured in Oxbridge law exams, and was the subject of a book edited by Ian Ramsay, Professor of Law.
"I was raised to believe that I could achieve anything", Gambotto-Burke said in a North Shore Times cover story.
Gambotto-Burke was first published under the pseudonym "Clavis Lumen" in the Sydney Morning Herald at the age of sixteen: a satire of poet Les Murray's "An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow", which was later included in Michele Field's anthology Shrinklit: Australia's Classic Literature Cut Down to Size.
Her first short story was published in the first on-sale issue of the Australian literary magazine Billy Blue in July 1982.
Gambotto-Burke contributed to Peter Blazey's short story anthology Love Cries: Cruel Passions, Strange Desires (1995). In the Sydney Morning Herald, Gail Cork described her 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 novel The Pure Weight of the Heart (also featuring an astronomer-protagonist) 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 magazine's book of the month in the UK.