Louis Armand is a Prague-based writer and visual artist, whose literary & critical writings have been widely published in journals such as Ctheory, Triquarterly & Culture Machine. His recent books include Literate Technologies (2005), Event States: Discourse, Time, Mediality (2007),
Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture (2005); and Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other (2006). He is also the editor of Contemporary Poetics published by Northwestern University Press in 2007.
As a poet, Armand’s work has been described by Miroslav Holub as luminous with verbal innovation and critical insight. As an editor, firstly of the Prague Revue and later of the PLR (Prague Literary Review), Armand has participated in many of the literary transformations and reformations of the last decade in Prague and further afield. His fiction and poetry have been widely published in the US, Australia and UK, and have been translated into Czech, French, Italian, Dutch, Japanese and Irish. In 2004 he founded the Prague International Poetry Festival. He presently directs the Intercultural Studies Pragramme in the Philosophy Faculty of Prague's Charles University.
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