About Louis Armand

Louis Armand (1972 – ) was born in Sydney and since 1994 has lived in Prague, where he is the director of the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory in the Philosophy Faculty at Charles University. He is the author of two volumes of prose fiction and has authored and edited a dozen volumes of non-fiction, including Contemporary Poetics (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007). His poetry has appeared in Meanin, Sulfur, New York Quarterly, as well as The Best Australian Poems 2008 and the Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry. His most recent collections include Picture Primitive (2006), Strange Attractors (2003) and Malice in Underland (2003). 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). He is general editor at the Prague-based publishing house Litteraria Pragensia and founder of the Prague International Poetry Festival.

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