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Gabriella Ambrosio

{{Short description|Italian writer and academic (born 1954)}}

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| occupation = Italian writer, journalist, academic, and advertising creative director

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| education = Degree in philosophy

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| notableworks = *Prima di Lasciarsi (novel, 2004)

  • "Siamo Quel che Diciamo" ("We Are What We Say") (non-fiction)
  • "Le Nuove Terre della Pubblicita" ("The New Advertising Lands") (non-fiction)

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| awards = Short story Sticko nominated for the 2015 Pushcart Prize in US by The Atlas Review

Novel Prima di lasciarsi awarded at the Festival du Premier Romance in Chambéry, France.

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Gabriella Ambrosio (born November 1954) is an Italian writer, journalist,{{cite news |url=http://dialog.ihned.cz/c1-58990480-masova-komunikace-je-slabym-bodem-dnesnich-demokracii |title=Masová komunikace je slabým bodem dnešních demokracií |trans-title=Mass communication is the weak point of today's democracies |newspaper=Hospodářské noviny |date=18 December 2012 |language=cs|access-date=20 August 2014}} academic, and advertising creative director. Her essays Siamo Quel che Diciamo ("We are what we say") and Le Nuove Terre della Pubblicita ("The New Advertising Land"){{cite news|author=Lillo Perri |url=http://www.meltemieditore.it/GiornaleElementi.asp?IdGiornale=96 |title=La pubblicità cambia volto |trans-title=The changing face of advertising |newspaper=Meltemi Editore |language=it |date=27 June 2007 |access-date=20 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220064815/http://www.meltemieditore.it/GiornaleElementi.asp?IdGiornale=96 |archive-date=20 December 2014 |df=dmy }} Review of Le nuove terre della pubblicità by Gabriella Ambrosio. are required advertising texts in several universities in Italy.{{cite web |language=it |url=http://docenti.unimc.it/paola.papakristo/courses/2014/13848 |title=Teoria e tecnica della comunicazione pubblicitaria — Portale Docenti |publisher=Università degli studi di Macerata |access-date=20 August 2014}}{{cite web |url=https://esse3web.unisa.it/unisa/ProgrammaCorso.do%3bjsessionid=F26400CCF1A8FBBE77024C956D45DAAF.jvm?CDS_ID=500171&AA_OFF_ID=2011&AD_ID=505682&AA_ORD_ID=2008&PDS_ID=10001&FAT_PART_COD=N0&DOM_PART_COD=N0 |title=Tecniche Della Comunicazione Pubblicitaria |publisher=Università degli Studi di Salerno |language=it |access-date=20 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126060731/https://esse3web.unisa.it/unisa/ProgrammaCorso.do%3bjsessionid=F26400CCF1A8FBBE77024C956D45DAAF.jvm?CDS_ID=500171&AA_OFF_ID=2011&AD_ID=505682&AA_ORD_ID=2008&PDS_ID=10001&FAT_PART_COD=N0&DOM_PART_COD=N0 |archive-date=26 January 2016 |url-status=dead }} Her first novel, Prima di Lasciarsi ("Before We Say Goodbye"), related to a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, has been translated into several languages including Hebrew and Arabic.

Education and early career

She graduated with a degree in philosophy from the University of Naples, and became a journalist and a copywriter.

Career

In 1992 she co-founded the advertising agency AM, now YesIAm, which has received international awards for its creative output. She was also a communications professor at La Sapienza University in Rome,{{cite web |url=http://acciardi-liberacomunicazione.blogspot.it/2006_12_01_archive.html |title=Alcuni esempi di 'Guerrilla Marketing' |publisher=acciardi-liberacomunicazione |language=it |trans-title=Some examples of 'Guerrilla Marketing' |date=15 December 2006 |access-date=20 August 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://libriblog.com/le-nuove-terre-della-pubblicita/ |title=The new world of advertising |date=1 August 2010 |publisher=Libri Blog |access-date=20 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206232301/http://libriblog.com/le-nuove-terre-della-pubblicita/ |archive-date=6 December 2013 |url-status=dead }} and is a member of the Italian Art Directors Club,{{cite web |url=http://www.adci.it/GabriellaAmbrosio |title=ADCI - Members - SOCI - Gabriella Ambrosio |website=www.adci.it |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323163635/http://www.adci.it/GabriellaAmbrosio |archive-date=23 March 2013 |url-status=dead}} the association of Italian advertising professionals.

The novel

Prima di Lasciarsi (Before We Say Goodbye), her first novel, is based on the true story of the Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing in Jerusalem, committed by Ayat al-Akhras, a seventeen-year-old Palestinian girl from the Dheisheh refugee camp. The book narrates the final hours in the lives of the bomber and her victims – a seventeen-year-old girl from Jerusalem and the security guard whose intervention saved the lives of the rest of the people at the busy market on that Passover Eve. The story begins at seven o'clock in the morning on the day of the attack and ends with the horrifying explosion. Despite the very short time span – seven hours – seen from the points of view of the different characters, the book tries to portray the complex reality between Israel and Palestine.The event, festival magazine, {{cite web |url=http://www.festmag.co.uk/archive/2010/212-before_we_say_goodbye |title=Before We Say Goodbye - Edinburgh Festival guide | Fest |access-date=2015-02-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228111532/https://www.festmag.co.uk/archive/2010/212-before_we_say_goodbye |archive-date=28 December 2014 |df=dmy-all }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/aug/28/banned-burned-or-simply-life-changing-what-are-the-best-dangerous-books|title=Banned, burned, or simply life changing: What are the best dangerous books?|website=TheGuardian.com|date=28 August 2015}}

The book was published in Italy in 2004 by Nutrimenti Publishers and was awarded at the Festival du Premier Romance in Chambéry, France. In 2008 the book's publication in both Arabic and Hebrew was sponsored by Amnesty International and employed by Israeli colleges and human rights organizations working in Israel and the Palestinian Territories as an educational tool.{{cite news |author=Ronny Shaked |date=November 5, 2008 |title=Separate lives, one death |publisher=Ynetnews |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3617390,00.html |access-date=20 August 2014}}{{cite news |author=Shira Stiv |date=14 January 2009 |script-title=he:להמציא מלים לפחד, גבריאלה אמברוסיו, לפני הפרידה |language=he |trans-title=Invent words to fear, Gabriella Ambrosio, Before Parting |newspaper=Haaretz |url=http://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/1.1241003 |access-date=20 August 2014}}

It has been published in the UK, Australia, and in New Zealand by Walker Books,[https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/140632504X Amazon.com listing: Before We say Goodbye]. Amazon.com. in France as Deuze Heures Avant ("12 Hours before") (Gallimard),[https://www.amazon.fr/Douze-heures-avant-Gabriella-Ambrosio/dp/2070638421%3FSubscriptionId%3D1NNRF7QZ418V218YP1R2%26tag%3Dbf-ps-ee-2-21%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D2070638421 Douze heures avant: Amazon.fr: Gabriella Ambrosio, Lise Caillat: Livres]. Amazon.com. by Fischer Verlag in Germany as Der Himmel uber Jerusalem ("The sky above Jerusalem"),[http://www.bookdepository.com/Der-Himmel-ber-Jerusalem-Gabriella-Ambrosio/9783596854714 Der Himmel über Jerusalem (Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe)] : Hardback : Gabriella Ambrosio, Annette Kopetzki : {{ISBN|9783596854714}}. Bookdepository.co.uk. as well as in Spain,[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Antes-despedirnos-Gabriella-Ambrosio/dp/8427901380 Antes de despedirnos: Amazon.co.uk: Gabriella Ambrosio, Manel Martí: Books]. Amazon.com. Turkey,[http://www.kitapnehri.com/k/752240/ayrilmadan_once_gabriella_ambrosio.htm Ayrılmadan Önce ( Gabriella Ambrosio )]. Kitapnehri.com. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928180152/http://www.kitapnehri.com/k/752240/ayrilmadan_once_gabriella_ambrosio.htm |date=28 September 2013 }} Greece, South Korea {{in lang|ko}} [http://www.kyobobook.co.kr/product/detailOnelineKor.laf?mallGb=KOR&barcode=9788927803515&linkClass=010317&ejkGb=KOR 인터넷교보문고] 꿈을 키우는 세상] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927222143/http://www.kyobobook.co.kr/product/detailOnelineKor.laf?mallGb=KOR&barcode=9788927803515&linkClass=010317&ejkGb=KOR |date=27 September 2013 }}. Kyobobook.co.kr. and China.The websites of the following publishers: Planeta Noguer [http://www.planeta.es/en/GB/AreasActivity/Publishing-companies/Grupo-Planeta/Noguer.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130312154445/http://planeta.es/en/GB/AreasActivity/Publishing-companies/Grupo-Planeta/Noguer.htm|date=12 March 2013}}, Remzi Kitabevi [http://www.remzi.com.tr/], Joongang Books (now a division of Random House), Jeili Publishing House [https://archive.today/20130411041037/http://isbndb.com/d/publisher/jieli_publishing_house.html], Psychogios [http://www.psichogios.gr/site/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730225732/http://www.psichogios.gr/site|date=30 July 2013}}.

It is studied as an example of Human rights literature in universities in UK and Canada.{{Cite web|url=http://yorkpen.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/863/|title = Announcing… Reading Rights!|date = 25 May 2013}}see: THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO. London. Canada. Department of English and Women's Studies. Testimony, Youth and Human Rights. Fall 2014

Other works of fiction

Her short story Sticko was published in 2009 in the book Freedom,{{cite web |author=Tania Hershman |url=http://www.theshortreview.com/reviews/FreedomAnthology.htm |title=Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights |publisher=the short review |access-date=20 August 2014 |archive-date=29 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529225412/http://www.theshortreview.com/reviews/FreedomAnthology.htm |url-status=usurped }}[https://www.amnesty.org.uk/books_details.asp?BookID=103 Amnesty International UK: Synopsis and Reviews of "Freedom"]. Amnesty International. (10 December 1948). {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101115134816/http://www.amnesty.org.uk/books_details.asp?BookID=103 |date=15 November 2010 }}[http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/9781845964948 Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights synopsis and brief reviews] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207040816/http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/9781845964948 |date=7 December 2014 }}. Random House (3 September 2009). an anthology of thirty-six short stories written by some of the leading fiction writers in the world, each inspired by an article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and subsequently published in Canada, the US, Spain, Italy, Turkey, and Poland.

"Sticko" is about freedom from torture and echoes the events in Genoa, Italy, during G8 summit in 2001.{{Cite web |url=http://www.hrctreehouse.co.uk/?s=gabriella+ambrosio |title=Gabriella ambrosio – Search Results – the blog of the Humanities Research Centre at the University of York, UK |access-date=7 December 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141207093405/http://www.hrctreehouse.co.uk/?s=gabriella+ambrosio |archive-date=7 December 2014 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://prezi.com/q5znvfwdhisi/sticko-gabriella-ambrosio/ |title=Sticko- Gabriella Ambrosio by Reem Alsati on Prezi |access-date=2014-12-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202755/https://prezi.com/q5znvfwdhisi/sticko-gabriella-ambrosio/ |archive-date=3 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }} It was nominated for the 2015 Pushcart Prize in the US by The Atlas Review.{{cite web |url=http://theatlasreview.com/tag/gabriella-ambrosio/ |title=Gabriella ambrosio « the Atlas Review |access-date=2014-12-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205184215/http://theatlasreview.com/tag/gabriella-ambrosio/ |archive-date=5 December 2014 |df=dmy-all }}

Il garbuglio di Garlasco, published in 2022 in Italy, retraces the story of Alberto Stasi, convicted for the murder of his girlfriend Chiara Poggi, which took place when he was 23 and she was 26. The book is based on a study of court documents and interviews with the protagonists, both known and unknown, of the affair. In 2025, this court case was reopened precisely on the basis of the elements described in the novel, which was therefore described by the press as “a prophecy book”.{{cite web | url=https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/libri/approfondimenti/2025/03/12/garlasco-i-dubbi-sul-caso-e-su-sempio-erano-gia-in-un-libro_17f87c8f-030d-4fad-8fa4-a42ed83e6e74.html | title=Garlasco, i dubbi sul caso e su Sempio erano già in un libro - Libri - Approfondimenti - Ansa.it | date=12 March 2025 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.distampa.com/garlasco-prevista-in-un-libro-la-riapertura-delle-indagini/#google_vignette | title=Garlasco: Prevista in Un Libro la Riapertura delle Indagini | date=13 March 2025 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.iltempo.it/attualita/2025/03/12/news/garlasco-alberto-stasi-nuovo-indagato-andrea-stasi-libro-profezia-dove-nascono-i-nuovi-sospetti-41853955/ | title=Garlasco, chi aveva anticipato la svolta: "È tutto scritto". Cosa non torna nelle indagini }}

The novel Tu che conosci gli uomini narrates the love between a teenager in search of his sexual identity and a young prostitute.

Published work

=Non-fiction=

  • "Siamo Quel che Diciamo" ("We Are What We Say") {{ISBN|88-8353-536-7}}
  • "Le Nuove Terre della Pubblicita" ("The New Advertising Lands") {{ISBN|88-8353-408-5}}

=Fiction=

  • Prima di Lasciarsi 2004{{Cite book|isbn = 88-88389-26-1|title = Prima di lasciarsi|last1 = Ambrosio|first1 = Gabriella|year = 2004}}
  • לפני הפרידה, Pardes, 2008{{Cite book|isbn = 978-965-7171-79-0|title = לפני הפרידה|last1 = אמברוסיו|first1 = גבריאלה|year = 2008}}
  • Prima di Lasciarsi, in Arabic, 2008
  • Before We Say Goodbye, 2010{{Cite book|isbn = 978-1-4063-2504-1|title = Before We Say Goodbye|last1 = Ambrosio|first1 = Gabriella|year = 2010}}
  • Douze heures avant, Gallimard (France), 2011{{Cite book|isbn = 978-2-07-063842-0|title = Douze heures avant|last1 = Ambrosio|first1 = Gabriella|year = 2011}}
  • Der Himmel uber Jerusalem, Fischer (Germany), 2012{{Cite book|isbn = 978-3-596-85471-4|title = Der Himmel über Jerusalem|last1 = Ambrosio|first1 = Gabriella|year = 2012}}
  • Antes de despedirnos, Planeta, Spain, 2011{{Cite book|isbn = 978-84-279-0138-4|title = Antes de despedirnos|last1 = Ambrosio|first1 = Gabriella|date = 15 November 2011}}
  • Ayrılmadan Önce, Kemzi Kitabevi, Turkey, 2011{{Cite book|isbn = 978-975-14-1431-1|title = Ayrılmadan Önce|last1 = Ambrosio|first1 = Gabriella|year = 2011}}
  • Prima di Lasciarsi, Psichogios, Greece, 2012{{Cite book|isbn = 978-960-496-634-9|title = Λίγο πριν πούμε αντίο|last1 = Ambrosio|first1 = Gabriella|year = 2012}}
  • 안녕이라고 말하기 전에, Joongang Books, Korea, 2012{{Cite book|isbn = 9788927803515|title = 안녕이라고 말하기 전에|author1 = 가브리엘라암브로시오|date = 25 July 2012}}
  • 哭泣的耶路撒冷 Jieli Publishing House, China. BSY310
  • Freedom, 2009{{Cite book|isbn = 978-1-84596-494-8|title = Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights|year = 2009}}
  • Il garbuglio di Garlasco, Rubbettino 2022. ISBN 978-88-498-7098-5
  • Tu che conosci gli uomini, Affiori Giulio Perrone 2024. ISBN 979-12-5579-106-5

External link

Official website: gabriellambrosio.com [https://gabriellaambrosio.com]

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