Gabriella Ambrosio

Gabriella Ambrosio

Gabriella Ambrosio (born November 1954 ) is an Italian writer and journalist as well as advertising and creative director. Her first novel " Prima di Lasciarsi " (German title: " The sky over Jerusalem ") about a suicide bombing in Jerusalem was translated into several languages, including Hebrew and Arabic.

Career

Gabriella Ambrosio studied philosophy at the University of Naples and then worked as a journalist and copywriter. In 1992 she co-founded the advertising agency AM, now YesIAm. The author was also a lecturer in communication studies at La Sapienza University in Rome and is a member of the Art Directors Club Italy, the professional association of leading Italian advertising professionals.

the novel

" Prima di Lasciarsi ", the author's first novel, is based on a true story about a suicide bombing in 2002 by a seventeen-year-old Palestinian girl from the Dheisheh refugee camp in a Kiryat HaYovel supermarket in Jerusalem . The book tells the last hours in the life of the assassin and her victims: a seventeen-year-old girl from Jerusalem and an Israeli security guard whose intervention on that eve of Passover saved the lives of many other supermarket visitors. The story begins at seven in the morning on the day of the assassination and ends with the fateful explosion. Despite the very short time span of only seven hours described from the perspective of the various characters, the novel attempts to depict the complex reality between Israel and Palestine .

The book was published in Italy in 2004 by Nutrimenti Publishers and received an award at the Festival du Premier Roman (Festival of the First Novel) in Chambéry , France. In 2008, the publication of the novel in Arabic and Hebrew was supported by Amnesty International and used by Israeli schools and human rights organizations for awareness-raising activities in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

In Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand the book was published under the title “ Before we say goodbye ” by the publisher Walker Books, in France as “ Douze heures avant ” and in Germany the book was published under the title “ Der Himmel über Jerusalem ”. Further editions were made in Spain, Greece, South Korea and China.

Other works of fiction

The short story entitled “ Sticko ” appeared in 2009 in the book “ Freedom ”, an anthology of 36 short stories penned by leading writers around the world. The stories, each based on an article from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, have been published in Canada, the United States, Spain, Italy, Turkey and Poland.

“ Sticko ” is about freedom from torture and deals with the events surrounding the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001 .

The short story was nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2014 by the literary magazine " The Atlas Review " in the USA .

Published works

Non-fiction

• “ Siamo Quel che Diciamo ” ( We are what we say ), ISBN 88-8353-536-7 .
• “ Le Nuove Terre della Pubblicità ” ( The new advertising land ), ISBN 88-8353-408-5 .

Fiction

• Prima di Lasciarsi, 2004, ISBN 88-88389-26-1 .
  • German: The sky over Jerusalem , novel, translated by Annette Kopetzki, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-596-85471-4 .
• Short story "Sticko" in: Freedom, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84596-494-8 .

Awards

• 2013: Toad of the month January for Heaven over Jerusalem

Web links

Commons : Gabriella Ambrosio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mášová komunikace depending slabým bodem dnešních demokracií (cz) . In: Hospodářské noviny , December 18, 2012. Accessed August 20, 2014. 
2. ↑ Alcuni esempi di 'Guerrilla Marketing' ( it ) acciardi-liberacomunicazione. December 15, 2006. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
3. ^ The new world of advertising. In: Libri Blog. August 1, 2010, accessed August 20, 2014 . 
4. ↑ ADCI - Members - SOCI - Gabriella Ambrosio - Bio ( Memento from March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ The event, festival magazine, archive link ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
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7. ↑ http://www.walker.co.uk/contributors/Gabriella-Ambrosio-8945.aspx
8. ^ Ronny Shaked: Separate lives, one death , Ynetnews . November 5, 2008. Retrieved August 20, 2014. 
9. ↑ Shira Stiv: אמברוסיו, לפני הפרידה (he) . In: Haaretz , January 14, 2009. Retrieved August 20, 2014. 
10. ^ Tania Hershman: Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In: the short review. Retrieved August 20, 2014 . 
11. ^ Amnesty International UK: Synopsis and Reviews of "Freedom" ( Memento November 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Amnesty International.
12. ↑ Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights synopsis and brief reviews ( Memento of the original dated December 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Random House (September 3, 2009). 
13. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ http://novelrights.com/2013/06/04/gabriella-ambrosio-authors-notesticko/
15. ↑ THE ATLAS REVIEW: ISSUE 2. theatlasreview.com, accessed on August 27, 2020 (English).