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Louis Armand, PhD (born 1972, Sydney) is a writer, poet, visual artist and a critical theorist. He has lived in Prague since 1994. His academic affiliations include the University of New England and Charles University, where he is Director of the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory, DALC. In 2004, Armand founded the Prague International Poetry Festival.〔(Prague International Poetry Festival 2004 )〕 in 2009 he co-organised (with David Vichnar) a Micro-Festival Poetry Series in Prague and Brno.〔(Micro-Festival Poetry Series 2009 )〕 He is a member of the editorial board of (Studies in Cultural Knowledge'' ) and founding editor (1994) of the online journal ''HJS'' ((Hypermedia Joyce Studies )). He is the founding editor of VLAK Magazine. Armand’s work has been described as “Avant-garde in the most literal sense, () best appreciated by readers prepared to abandon the baggage of identity-driven poetry and systematically naturalist prose."〔Bridie McCarthy, "Cosmopoetics: ‘Dimensions Unknown’” review of ''Strange Attractors'' in ''Jacket'' 31(2006) ()〕 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). His screenplay ''Clair Obscur'' won honourable mention at the 2009 Trieste Film Festival. ==Works== 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). 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. Armand’s novels include ''Clair Obscur'' (2011); ''Breakfast at Midnight'' (2012), critically acclaimed and described by critics as a “twisted, brilliantly savage acid noir”〔http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2013/12/02/cairo-novel-excerpt-louis-armand/〕 and a “wonderfully executed nod to Kafka’s special brand of disorienting surrealism”;〔http://necessaryfiction.com/reviews/BreakfastatMidnightbyLouisArmand〕 ''Canicule'' (2013); ''Cairo'' (2014), which was shortlisted for the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize 2014, and, most recently, ''Abacus'' (2015). 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 ''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). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louis Armand (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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