Sylvie Kandé is the author of three collections of poetry published by Gallimard: Lagon, lagunes: Tableau de mémoire (2000), postscript by Édouard Glissant; La quête infinie de l’autre rive: Épopée en trois chants (2011), awarded the 2017 Prix Lucienne Gracia-Vincent, published as The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore: An Epic in Three Cantos (2022); and Gestuaire (2016), awarded the 2017 Prix Louise Labé, forthcoming as Gestuary.