Born in France of Martinican descent, Fabienne Kanor is a novelist and a filmmaker, and the author of several novels. Awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, she also received the Fetkann Award for her novel D’Eaux Douces (Gallimard, 2004), the RFO Literary Award for Humus (Gallimard, 2006), and the Grand Prix Carbet for Faire l’aventure (Lattes, 2014). Her most recent novel entitled Je ne suis pas un homme qui pleure (Lattes, 2016) talks about being a Black female writer in France and what is left when a man runs away, when love dies. In her work, she engages with the burden of collective memory on individual identity formation, the male/female love hate saga, West African immigration in Europe and the slave trade.