Gloria Escomel

{{short description|Canadian writer (born 1941)|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| birth_place = Montevideo, Uruguay

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Gloria Escomel (born October 15, 1941) is a Uruguayan-born Canadian writer.Bill Marshall, Will Kaufman, Cristina Johnston, eds. France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. p. 418. ABC-CLIO, 2005. {{ISBN|1851094113}}. She first moved from Uruguay to France in 1960 to study literature at the Université de Paris, later moving to Canada to pursue her doctorate at the Université de Montréal.

Escomel was a lecturer at the Université du Québec à Montréal from 1978 to 1988, and wrote as a journalist for publications including Châtelaine, L'Actualité, Perspectives, La Gazette des femmes, Le Devoir, La Liberté and La Nouvelle barre du jour. She received the Judith Jasmin Award in 1988 for her Gazette article "Quelle vieillesse vous préparez-vous: un âge d'or ou d'argent?"

Escomel has also published novels, short stories and radio plays for Radio-Canada's Première Chaîne, as well as numerous policy documents for the Government of Quebec on disability, LGBT and human rights issues.

Escomel is an out lesbian.W. H. New, Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada (chapter "Gay and Lesbian Writing", pp. 418-422). University of Toronto Press, 2002. {{ISBN|0802007619}}.