Louis Armand (131 works by)
Born: Established: 1972 Sydney ;
Gender: Male
Expatriate assertion
Louis Armand insists that he is not James Lawrence see email chain in bio source below. ch 13/02/09 Louis Armand can be contacted at Email: louis_armand@yahoo.com Go to Australian Poet According to The Advertiser, 09/06/97, p.29, Louis Armand is a pen-name for Lawrence James. As all of Armand's publications, including his website, refer only to the Armand version of the name, I have not amended the agent record at this stage. Await further verifiation. TW 02/06/04

BiographyHistory

Louis Armand studied arts and philosophy at a number of institutions. He has travelled widely, living for periods in Sydney, Marrakech, Paris and New York. Since 1994 Armand has lived and worked in the Czech Republic, where he has lectured on cultural theory and art history at Charles University, Prague.

Armand's reviews, critical essays, poetry, fiction and translations have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. In 1997 he received the Max Harris Prize for poetry at the Penola Festival (Adelaide), and he was awarded the Nassau Review Prize, 2000 (New York). Armand has been editor of the literary broadsheet Semtext (Plastic), a member of the editorial board of Rhizomes: Studies in Cultural Knowledge (Washington State University), and poetry editor of the Prague Revue.

Awards

1997 winner Max Harris Literary Award
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