Gloria V. Casañas

{{Short description|Argentine writer}}

{{Infobox writer

| name=Gloria V. Casañas

| image=Casañas, Gloria -FILSA 2015 11 04 fRF01 (cropped).JPG

| alt=Photo of Gloria Casañas at the Santiago International Book Fair 2015

| caption=Gloria Casañas at the Santiago International Book Fair 2015. Photo by Rodrigo Fernández.

| birth_place= Buenos Aires, Argentina

| birth_date= {{birth date and age|1964|8|22}}

| occupation=writer, novelist

}}

Gloria V. Casañas (born 22 August 1964, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine writer of historical fiction and romance novels.

Although she confesses to having written all of her life, her first published work was En alas de la seducción (On the Wings of Seduction) in 2008.{{cite book |url=http://www.cuspide.com/9789506441289/En+Alas+De+La+Seduccion/ |title=En Alas De La Seduccion por CASAÑAS GLORIA V. |isbn=9789506441289 |website=Cuspide.com |access-date=2017-03-28 |last1=Casañas |first1=Gloria V. |year=2012 |archive-date=2018-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912204600/https://www.cuspide.com/9789506441289/En+Alas+De+La+Seduccion/ |url-status=dead }} This was followed by La Maestra de la laguna (The Teacher from the Lagoon) in 2010,{{cite web|url=http://www.megustaleer.com.ar/libro/la-maestra-de-la-laguna/AR10933 |title=La maestra de la laguna - Megustaleer Argentina |website=Megustaleer.com.ar |date=2016-11-22 |access-date=2017-03-28}} which became a best-seller and rose her to notoriety amongst fans of the genre. The book tells the story of Elizabeth O'Connor, a Bostonian teacher who is recruited by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento to provide elementary education to Indians and Whites alike in the arid plains of Argentina. The novel’s success led to a stint giving courses on Contemporary Latin American Literature of the Southern Cone for the Department of World Languages of Framingham State University, Massachusetts, during the fall of 2014.{{cite web |url=https://www.framingham.edu/Assets/uploads/academics/academic-affairs/_documents/annual_report_-_academic_affairs_-_ay_2013-2014.pdf |title=Academic Affairs Annual Report |website=Framingham.edu |access-date=2017-03-28 |archive-date=2021-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306044732/https://www.framingham.edu/Assets/uploads/academics/academic-affairs/_documents/annual_report_-_academic_affairs_-_ay_2013-2014.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://www.framingham.edu/Assets/uploads/alumni/_documents/alumni-mag-spring-2014.pdf |title=175 Years of Living to the Truth |website=Framingham.edu |access-date=2017-03-28}}

Other works include Yporâ (2011, set during the Paraguayan War, won Reader's Prize at the 38th International Buenos Aires Book Fair),{{cite web|url=http://www.elcomercio.com/tendencias/cultura/premio-del-lector-y-pora.html |title=Premio del Lector para "Y porá" de Casañas en Feria Libro de Buenos Aires |publisher=El Comercio |access-date=2017-03-29}}{{cite book |url=http://www.cuspide.com/9789506442194/Y+Pora/ |title=Y Pora por CASAÑAS GLORIA V. |isbn=9789506442194 |website=Cuspide.com |access-date=2017-03-28 |archive-date=2018-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912204537/https://www.cuspide.com/9789506442194/Y+Pora/ |url-status=dead }} El ángel roto (The Broken Angel, 2012, spin-off of The Teacher from the Lagoon),{{cite book |url=http://www.cuspide.com/9789506442613/El+Angel+Roto/ |title=El Angel Roto por CASAÑAS GLORIA V. |isbn=9789506442613 |website=Cuspide.com |access-date=2017-03-28 |archive-date=2018-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912204503/https://www.cuspide.com/9789506442613/El+Angel+Roto/ |url-status=dead }} La canción del mar (The Song of the Sea, 2013),{{cite web |url=http://www.tematika.com/libros/ficcion_y_literatura--1/novelas--1/romantica--13/la_cancion_del_mar--573130.htm |title=La Cancion del Mar - Gloria V. Casañas - Libros |website=Tematika.com |date=2013-11-19 |access-date=2017-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329052638/http://www.tematika.com/libros/ficcion_y_literatura--1/novelas--1/romantica--13/la_cancion_del_mar--573130.htm |archive-date=2017-03-29 |url-status=dead }} Por el sendero de las lágrimas (Through the Trail of Tears (2014, about the Cherokee removal),{{cite book |url=http://www.cuspide.com/9789506443252/Por+El+Sendero+De+Las+Lagrimas/ |title=Por El Sendero De Las Lagrimas por CASAÑAS GLORIA V. |isbn=9789506443252 |website=Cuspide.com |date=2015-04-27 |access-date=2017-03-28 |archive-date=2018-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912204525/https://www.cuspide.com/9789506443252/Por+El+Sendero+De+Las+Lagrimas/ |url-status=dead }} La salvaje de Boston (The Boston Savage, 2016, also set in the Teacher from the Lagoon continuity){{cite web|url=http://www.megustaleer.com.ar/libro/la-salvaje-de-boston/AR14862 |title=La salvaje de Boston |website=Megustaleer.com.ar |access-date=2017-03-28}} and Noche de Luna Larga (Long Moon Night, 2016).{{cite web|url=http://www.megustaleer.com.ar/libro/noche-de-luna-larga/AR30548 |title=Noche de Luna Larga |website=Megustaleer.com.ar |access-date=2017-03-28}} She also wrote a short story for the anthology Ay, Amor (Oh, Love, 2014).{{cite book |url=http://www.cuspide.com/9789506443436/Ay,+Amor/ |title=Ay, Amor por BAJO CRISTINA |isbn=9789506443436 |website=Cuspide.com |access-date=2017-03-28 |archive-date=2018-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912204607/https://www.cuspide.com/9789506443436/Ay%2C%20Amor/ |url-status=dead }}

Her writing is characterized by exhaustive historical research.