Agnès Poirier

Agnès Catherine Poirier (French pronunciation: [a.ɲɛs kat.ʁin pwa.ʁje], born 1975) is a French anglophile journalist.

Life and career

Born in Paris, she has lived and worked in London since the mid-1990s, initially as a doctoral student at the London School of Economics. She has worked as a radio producer for Radio France.

She writes for Le Nouvel Observateur, and Le Monde and her work in English has featured in The Guardian, The Times and The Independent on Sunday. She is also a correspondent for Marianne, La Vie and the Italian L'Espresso. Between 2001-6 she was a film critic for Libération. She advises the Cannes Film Festival about British films. She is currently (2015) a regular panel member of the British Broadcasting Corporation's Dateline London public affairs television discussion programme.

Les Nouveaux Anglais, Alvik Editions, 14 April 2005, ISBN 2914833296
Touché, A French woman's take on the English, 2006, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Le Modèle anglais, une illusion française, 14 September 2006, Alvik Editions, ISBN 2914833539
Les Pintades à Londres, 2008

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