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]