Fabienne Kanor

Born in France to Caribbean parents, Fabienne Kanor is a writer and filmmaker whose novels include D’eaux Douces, Humus, Je ne suis pas un homme qui, and Louisiane. Her works interrogate race and gender in France and the French Antilles, and West African migrations to France. Awarded the Chevalier des Arts & des Lettres and the 2020 Casa de Las Americas Prize, Kanor is a professor of French and Francophone Studies at Penn State.