Mireille Vincendon, née Kramer (born 1910) was a French-language Egyptian writer. [1] She wrote two collections of poetry, short stories and a novel. [2]
Mereille Kramer was born in Cairo in 1910 to an Egyptian mother and Russian father, and was educated at French schools. [2] She married Jacques Vincendon, director of the Land Bank of Egypt. [3]
Encouraged by the composer Florent Schmitt, [3] for whom she wrote words to be set to music, Vincendon took up literary activity in the late 1940s, publishing in the Egyptian French-language press. In 1956 she left Egypt and settled in Paris. [2]
Vincendon's poetry "revolves around existential concerns and the limits of language". [2] Like surrealist poetry, her free verse contained violent metaphor, though without surrealism's particular theoretical commitments. [4] Her novel Annabel's Notebooks mixed fantasy and reality to tell the story of a girl at a French-speaking boarding-school in Egypt. [2]
Mireille Vincendon, née Kramer (born 1910) was a French-language Egyptian writer. [1] She wrote two collections of poetry, short stories and a novel. [2]
Mereille Kramer was born in Cairo in 1910 to an Egyptian mother and Russian father, and was educated at French schools. [2] She married Jacques Vincendon, director of the Land Bank of Egypt. [3]
Encouraged by the composer Florent Schmitt, [3] for whom she wrote words to be set to music, Vincendon took up literary activity in the late 1940s, publishing in the Egyptian French-language press. In 1956 she left Egypt and settled in Paris. [2]
Vincendon's poetry "revolves around existential concerns and the limits of language". [2] Like surrealist poetry, her free verse contained violent metaphor, though without surrealism's particular theoretical commitments. [4] Her novel Annabel's Notebooks mixed fantasy and reality to tell the story of a girl at a French-speaking boarding-school in Egypt. [2]