Sylvie Kandé

Sylvie Kandé is a Franco-Senegalese poet with three collections published by Gallimard. Lagon, lagunes. Tableau de Mémoire (2000) was postfaced by Édouard Glissant, while La quête infinie de l’autre rive: épopée en trois chants (2011), short-listed for the Prix Mahogany and the Prix des Découvreurs, received the 2017 Prix Lucienne Gracia-Vincent. It is now published in a German translation by Matthes & Seitz and in an English translation, The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore: An Epic in Three Cantos (Wesleyan University Press, 2022). The third collection, Gestuaire (2016), short-listed for the Prix Ethiophile and the Prix Kowalski des lycéens, received the 2017 Prix Louise Labé under the auspices of the Saint John Perse Foundation and will be anthologized in German. 

Kandé has read at various venues including the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, the French Embassy in New Delhi, and at Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. A member of PEN America and of the Association of the Lycée Louis-le-grand Alumni, she is the recipient of a Tyler Stovall Mission Prize granted by the Western Society for French History.