Sylvie Kandé
Sylvie Kandé | |
|---|---|
| Born | 13 October 1957 |
| Education | Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris-Sorbonne University, Paris Diderot University |
| Occupations | Poet, historian |
| Awards | Louise-Labé Prize, Lucienne Gracia-Vincent Prize |
Sylvie Kandé (born 13 October 1957, Paris) is a French poet and historian. She won the Louise-Labé Prize,[1] and the Lucienne Gracia-Vincent Prize.[2]
Life
She studied at Lycée Louis-le-Grand. and Paris-Sorbonne University.[3]
She taught French literature at Stanford University. She graduated with a PhD from Paris Diderot University. She teaches at State University of New York at Old Westbury.[4]
Her work appeared in Guernica,[5] The New York Review of Books.[6]
Kandé was among the first authors published in a new imprint launched by Éditions Gallimard in 2000, the Continents noirs series.[7][8]
She is a member of the translation committee of the PEN America.[3]
Works
- Lagon, lagunes. Tableau de Mémoire (2000)
- La quête infinie de l’autre rive: épopée en trois chants (2011),
- The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore: An Epic in Three Cantos (Wesleyan University Press, 2022)
- Gestuaire (2016)
References
- ↑ "Sylvie Kandé". guernicamag.
- ↑ "Sylvie Kandé". Wesleyan University Press. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- 1 2 "Sylvie Kande". aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
- ↑ "Sylvie Kande | SUNY Old Westbury". www.oldwestbury.edu. 2012-05-18. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ↑ "Visitation". Guernica. 2025-09-17. Archived from the original on 2025-09-24. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ↑ Carlson, Nancy Naomi; Kandé, Sylvie (2025-12-04). "Call of Air". The New York Review of Books. Vol. 72, no. 19. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ↑ Bouquet, Stéphane (2 March 2000). "Restarting the Africa pump: With "Continents noirs", Gallimard, following other publishers, aims to reflect the vitality of African literature". Libération (in French).
- ↑ Emilie Grangeray (2000-01-21). "Gallimard parie sur l'Afrique" [Gallimard bets on Africa]. Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 2026-01-22.