She obtained degrees in modern literature and sociolinguistics at the University of Orléans and Tours, and went on to study in Paris under Romuald Fonkoua.

[1] This book was inspired by an anecdote in the logbook of a captain of a slave ship in 1774, which reported that fourteen women jumped into the sea rather than proceed into slavery.

Renée Larrier noted that "Kanor's polyphonic text is part of a series of recent works dealing with women's resistance to involuntary servitude.

La Noiraude was the first of a planned trilogy of medium-length films, and it explored the trials and tribulations faced by Caribbean people in Paris.

[1] In 2008, Kanor collaborated with Emmanuelle Bidou on Janbé dlo: une histoire antillaise, a documentary that traced the three stages of Caribbean emigration to France from the perspective of families.