Sylvie Kande
Sylvie Kandé is an award-winning poet and scholar. Kandé is the author of four poetry collections and editor of, Discours sur le métissage, identités métisses: En quête d'Ariel. Her most recent French language poetry collection Gestuaire (poèmes) was awarded the 2017 Prix de poésie Louise Labé. La quête infinie de l'autre rive: Épopée en trois chants now available from Wesleyan University Press in translation as The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore: An Epic in Three Cantos was awarded the Prix Gracia-Vincent from the Foundation Saint John Perse.