Louis Armand

Louis Armand, (born 1972, Sydney) is a writer, visual artist and critical theorist.

He has lived in Prague since 1994.

He is a member of the editorial board of Rhizomes: Studies in Cultural Knowledge and founding editor (1994) of the online journal HJS (Hypermedia Joyce Studies).

He is the founding editor of VLAK Magazine, and directs the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory at Charles University, Prague.

In 1997 he received the Max Harris prize for poetry at the Penola Festival (Adelaide) and in 2000 he was awarded the Nassau Review Prize (New York).

Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 1998.

The Viconian Paramour.

New York: x-poezie, 1998.

Erosions.

Sydney: Vagabond Press, 1999.

(chapbook)

Anatomy Lessons.

New York: x-poezie, 1999.

(chapbook)

Land Partition.

He is author of five volumes of poetry and a number of chapbooks including: Land Partition (2001), Inexorable Weather (2001), Malice in Underland (2003) and Strange Attractors (2003).

The Garden, a work of experimental fiction was published in 2001.

Melbourne: Textbase Publications, 2001.

Base Materialism.

New York: x-poezie, 2001.

(chapbook)

Weather'' Todmorden, Lancs.

(UK): Arc Publications, 2001.

in Underland'' Melbourne: Textbase, 2003.

Attractors'' Cambridge: Salt Publications, 2003.

Primitive'' NY: Antigen, 2006.

Armand's poems have appeared in Meanjin, Agenda, The Age, Stand, Poetry Review, Verse and Sulfur, as well as Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry (ed. John Kinsella 2008), 30 Contemporary Australian Poets (eds. Michael Brennan and Peter Minter, 2000), and Best Australian Poems'' (ed. Peter Rose, 2008).

His screenplay Clair Obscur won honourable mention at the 2009 Trieste Film Festival.< In 2004, Armand founded the Prague International Poetry Festival, and since 2009 has co-organised the Prague Microfestival.

Armand's novels include Clair Obscur (2011); Breakfast at Midnight (2012), critically acclaimed and described by critics as a “twisted, brilliantly savage acid noir” and a “wonderfully executed nod to Kafka's special brand of disorienting surrealism”; Canicule (2013); Cairo (2014), which was shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize, Abacus (Vagabond, 2015), The Combinations (2016), shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize and praised as "an important and corrosive novel, which is a commitment to creativity in the face of absurdity, a politics of avant garde literary concentration and experience”, and most recently, Vampyr (2020) and The Garden: Director's Cut (2020).

from Ausland'' Sydney: Vagabond, 2011.

(with John Kinsella) (Prague: Litteraria, 2012)

In 2013, Breakfast at Midnight was translated into Czech by David Vichnar and published by Argo Press.

Armand's critical and theoretical work has been published in journals such as Ctheory, Triquarterly and Culture Machine.

His most recent books include Videology, vols.

He has also authored a number of volumes of criticism, including Videology (2015) & The Organ-Grinder's Monkey: Culture after the Avantgarde (2013).

His poetry has appeared in the anthologies Thirty Australian Poets, The Best Australian Poems, Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets & The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry.

1 & 2 (2015, 2017), Helixtrolysis: Cyberology & the Joycean “Tyrondynamon Machine” (2014), The Organ Grinder's Monkey (2013),Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture (2008), Event States: Discourse, Time, Mediality (2007) and Contemporary Poetics (2007).

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He has published ten novels, including Vampyr (2020), GlassHouse (2018), The Combinations (2016; shortlisted for The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize), Cairo (2014; longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Award), and Breakfast at Midnight (2012; described by 3:AM's Richard Marshall as "a perfect modern noir").

In addition, he is the author of numerous collections of poetry – most recently, Monument (with John Kinsella, 2020), East Broadway Rundown (2015) The Rube Goldberg Variations (2015), & Synopticon (with John Kinsella, 2012).