Louis Armand (writer)


Louis Armand, is a writer, visual artist, and critical theorist. He has lived in Prague since 1994.
He has published ten novels, including Vampyr, GlassHouse, The Combinations, Cairo, and Breakfast at Midnight. In addition, he is the author of numerous collections of poetry – most recently, Monument, East Broadway Rundown ''The Rube Goldberg Variations, & Synopticon. He has also authored a number of volumes of criticism, including Videology & The Organ-Grinder's Monkey: Culture after the Avantgarde. 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.
In 1997 he received the Max Harris prize for poetry at the Penola Festival and in 2000 he was awarded the Nassau Review Prize. 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.
He is a member of the editorial board of Rhizomes: Studies in Cultural Knowledge and founding editor of the online journal HJS. He is the founding editor of VLAK Magazine'', and directs the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory at Charles University, Prague.

Works

Armand's poems have appeared in Meanjin, Agenda, The Age, Stand, Poetry Review, Verse and Sulfur, as well as,, and . He is author of five volumes of poetry and a number of chapbooks including: Land Partition, Inexorable Weather, Malice in Underland and Strange Attractors. The Garden, a work of experimental fiction was published in 2001.
Armand's novels include Clair Obscur ; Breakfast at Midnight, 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 ; Cairo, which was shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize, Abacus, The Combinations, 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 and The Garden: Director's Cut.
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. 1 & 2, Helixtrolysis: Cyberology & the Joycean “Tyrondynamon Machine”, The Organ Grinder's Monkey,'' Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture, Event States: Discourse, Time, Mediality and Contemporary Poetics''.

Publications

Poetry

. Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 1998.
The Viconian Paramour. New York: x-poezie, 1998.
Erosions. Sydney: Vagabond Press, 1999.
Anatomy Lessons. New York: x-poezie, 1999.
Land Partition. Melbourne: Textbase Publications, 2001.
Base Materialism. New York: x-poezie, 2001.
Todmorden, Lancs. : Arc Publications, 2001.
Melbourne: Textbase, 2003.
Cambridge: Salt Publications, 2003.
NY: Antigen, 2006.
Sydney: Vagabond, 2011.


Rube Goldberg Variations


. Libretto, 2021.
'. Chapbook, 2021.
. ΜΕΓΆΦΩΝΟ, 2022.
'. Prague: IAC, 2023.
. Melbourne: Puncher & Wattmann, 2024.

Fiction

The Garden
Menudo












. Miskatonic Virtual University Press, 2021.
. Equus Press, 2023.
. London: Equus Press, 2024.
A Tomb in H-Section. London: Equus Press, 2025.

Theory

Eds. Louis Armand & Ondrej Pilny. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2002.
Prague: Karolinum Press/Charles University Press, 2003.
Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2004.
Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2005.
Eds. Louis Armand & Clare Wallace. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2006.
Eds. Louis Armand & Arthur Bradley. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2006.
Prague: Karolinum Press, 2006.
Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2006.
Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2006.
Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2007.
Ed. Louis Armand. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007.
Ed. Louis Armand with Pavel Černovský. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2007.
Expanded and revised edition, Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2008.
Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2010.
Eds. David Vichnar & Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2010.
Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2010.
Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2013.
Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2014.
Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2015.
Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2017.
. Lisboa: Barco Bêbado, 2023.
. Grand Rapids MI: Anti-Oedipus Press, 2023.
. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2024.
. Sheffield: Erratum, 2024.

Exhibitions

Galerie Artnatur Solo
Galerie Gambit Solo
Southern: 10 Contemporary Australian Artists, Home Gallery co-curator

Hunger Gallery Solo