Louis Armand is an artist and writer who has lived and worked in Prague since 1994. His poetry, essays and short prose have appeared in numerous journals internationally, including Triquarterly, Sulfur, Meanjin, Culture Machine, Poetry Review and Stand.

Publications include Seances (Twisted Spoon Press, 1998), The Viconian Paramour (x-poezie, 1998), Anatomy Lessons (x-poezie, 1999), Erosions (Vagabond Press, 1999), Synopticon (with John Kinsella: Mudlark, 2000), Land Partition (Antigen Press, 2000), Inexorable Weather (forthcoming), The Garden (a volume of experimental prose; 2001), Strange Attractors (Salt, 2003) and Malice in Underland (Textbase, 2003). In 1997 he was awarded the Penola Festival's Max Harris Prize for Poetry (Adelaide), and recently he was awarded the Nassau Review Prize for 2000 (New York).

He is currently Director of Intercultural Studies at Charles University, and also lectures on literary theory and art history. He is the editor of the literary monthly, the PLR (Prague Literary Review: www.shakes.cz/plr), a member of the editorial board of Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge (www.rhizomes.net), and an editor of the comparative studies journal Litteraria Pragensia.

Publications

Seances (Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 1998)

Strange Attractors (Cambridge: Salt, 2003)

Land Partition (Melbourne: Textbase, 2001)

Inexorable Weather (Todmorden: Arc, 2001)

The Garden (Cambridge: Salt, 2001)

Synopticon (with John Kinsella) (Mudlark, 2000)

Critical Essays

Art

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