Gabriella Ambrosio
Gabriella Ambrosio
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| Born | 6 November 1954 Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Education | degree in Philosophy, University of Naples |
| Occupation | Author |
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Gabriella Ambrosio (born 1954) is an Italian author and a former journalist. She has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Naples. She is a former Communications professor at La Sapienza University in Rome.
Her first novel Prima di Lasciarsi was published in 2004 in Italy and became a set textbook in Italian high schools as well as in several universities around the world such as Australia, France, Guatemala and more. [1] [2] [3] The book was also translated into Hebrew and Arabic and published in Israel and Palestine in 2008. It has since been adopted by schools, colleges and human rights organizations working in the region.
Her professional books "Siamo quei che diciamo" ("We're What We Say") and "Le nuove terre della pubblicita" (“The New Advertising Lands") dealing with advertising, are taught in universities throughout Italy.[4] [5][6][7][8]
She is currently the President and Co-Founder of AM Newton 21, an International Advertising agency in Rome. Since 1992 she has been a member of the exclusive Italian Art Directors Club, the association of the best professionals in Italy.
About the book "Prima di Lasciarsi"
“Prima di lasciarsi" ("Before We Say Goodbye”) is Gabriella Ambrosio first novel. The book is based on a true story of a suicide bombing by a seventeen year-old Palestinian girl from the Deheisha refugee camp at a supermarket in Kiryat Yovel, Jerusalem in 2002. 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, with his own body, 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 – a mere seven hours - seen from the different points of view of each character, it manages to accurately portray the complex reality between Israel and Palestine. The book was published in Italian in 2004 by Nutrimenti Publishers, Italy. After receiving rave reviews all over Italy, the book became a textbook in Italian high schools as well as in several universities around the world. In 2008 the book was translated into Hebrew and published by Pardes publishing house in Israel, and also translated into Arabic and published in the Palestinian territories and other middle eastern countries. The book has been employed by Israeli colleges and human rights organizations working in Israel and Palestine as an educational tool. It has also won the prize for Italian novels at the Festival du Premier Romance in Chambery France. The book will be published soon in the UK.
Ali Rashid, former head of the Palestinian delegation in Italy said about the book: "Prima di lasciarsi can do infinitively more for peace between the two countries than hundreds of political good-will talks I have listened to"[9] La Stampa:"Gabriella Ambrosio has written a book dealing with the life in common that all people from Ayat and Rachel's age should read in order to understand what happens in that strip of land where Palestinian teenagers can't go to school and the Israeli ones can't get on a bus any more".[10] Giuliana Sgrena:"The fresh and creative writing style enables us to read with ease the lives flowing between Israel and Palestine. Prima di lasciarsi, Gabriella Ambrosio's first novel, can be read in one go".[11]
References
- ^ Australia, University of South Australia of Adelaide
- ^ France, Chambery University of Savoy
- ^ Guatemala, San Carlos University Guatemala
- ^ Università Lumsa, Roma
- ^ Università La Sapienza, Roma
- ^ Università di Macerata
- ^ Università di Salerno
- ^ Università di Urbino
- ^ Ali Rashid introducing this book at "The house of Literatures" in Rome, October 2004
- ^ Stefania Miretti on La Stampa October 24, 2004
- ^ Giuliana Sgrena on il Manifesto November 24, 2004
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