found: The University of Western Australia/French, via WWW, September 6, 2017(Sylvie Kandé, an author from France and Senegal writing in French; born in Paris to a French mother and a Senegalese father, Sylvie Kandé studied the image of Black people in ancient Greek art and literature as a topic for her Masters in Classics at the Sorbonne; she was awarded a Ph. D in African History from Paris VII for her dissertation (Terres, urbanisme et architecture "créoles" en Sierra Leone, 1998); in 1987, she established herself in the United States; she was the editor of the proceedings of a colloquium held at NYU in 1997 on mixed racial identity in the Francophone context; her book of poetic prose, Lagon, lagunes, was published by Gallimard in January 2000; she translated Heart of Spain - Photos of the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa (Aperture, 2000) into French, and co-translated Alexis Wright's collection of short stories; her short stories and poems have been published in France in La Nouvelle Revue Française, as well as in Africa, and the United States; she has published numerous papers in scholarly journals on African, African-American and Caribbean Literature and Cinema; she taught African Studies in the Africana program, and Francophone African and Caribbean literatures in the French department at NYU for six years; she also was a research assistant at the NY Metropolitan Museum in the African arts division; she has taught African studies at SUNY Old Westbury, as well as Caribbean history at the New School; she is a member of the PEN American Center, in the subcommittee Prison Writing)
