Gloria V. Casañas (born 22 August 1964, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine writer of historical fiction and romance novels.
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Gloria V. Casañas | |
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Gloria Casañas at the Santiago International Book Fair 2015. Photo by Rodrigo Fernández. | |
Born | 22 August 1964 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Occupation | writer, novelist |
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.[1] This was followed by La Maestra de la laguna (The Teacher from the Lagoon) in 2010,[2] 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.[3][4]
Other works include Yporâ (2011, set during the Paraguayan War, won Reader's Prize at the 38th International Buenos Aires Book Fair),[5][6] El ángel roto (The Broken Angel, 2012, spin-off of The Teacher from the Lagoon),[7] La canción del mar (The Song of the Sea, 2013),[8] Por el sendero de las lágrimas (Through the Trail of Tears (2014, about the Cherokee removal),[9] La salvaje de Boston (The Boston Savage, 2016, also set in the Teacher from the Lagoon continuity)[10] and Noche de Luna Larga (Long Moon Night, 2016).[11] She also wrote a short story for the anthology Ay, Amor (Oh, Love, 2014).[12]
Her writing is characterized by exhaustive historical research.