Monday, November 1st, 2004: Louis Armand
Louis Armand is an artist and writer who has lived and worked
in Prague since 1994. His work has appeared internationally.
His reviews, critical essays, poetry, fiction and translations
have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including
Sulfur, Meanjin, Frank, Poetry Review, Stand, Triquarterly,
Culture Machine and Calyx: 30 Contemporary Poets, eds. Michael
Brennan and Peter Minter (Sydney: Paper Bark Press, 2000).
In 1997 he received the Max Harris Prize for poetry at the
Penola Festival (Adelaide), and more recently he was awarded
the Nassau Review Prize, 2000 (New York).
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Armand is a member of the editorial board of Rhizomes: Studies
in Cultural Knowledge, an editor of the comparative studies
journal Litteraria Pragensia and founding editor (1994) of
the online journal hjs (hypermedia joyce studies).
Armand is also the editor of the Prague-international cultural
monthly PLR (Prague Literary Review).
His publications include: Strange Attractors (Cambridge:
Salt, 2003), Land Partition (Melbourne: Textbase, 2001),
The Garden (Cambridge: Salt, 2001), Inexorable Weather (Lancashire:
Arc, 2001), Base Materialism (New York: x-poezie, 2001),
Synopticon with John Kinsella (Florida: Mudlark, 2000), Anatomy
Lessons (New York, 1999), Erosions (Sydney: Vagabond Press,
1999) and Seances (Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 1998). His
most recent book is Malice in Underland (Melbourne: Textbase,
2003).
Other books include Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology
(Prague: Karolinum/Charles University Press, 2003) and joycemedia
(Prague: Litteraria, forthcoming 2004).
Louis Armand is currently Director of Intercultural Studies
at the philosophy faculty of Charles University, and director
of the Prague James Joyce Centre.
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