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French born Agnès Poirier is a journalist and author, with an impressive track-record in print, broadcasting and online. Educated first at the Sorbonne, then the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), and most recently the LSE, she moved to London to write for Le Monde, and then became UK arts correspondent for Le Figaro (1997-2001). From 2001 to 2006, she was a political correspondent and film critic for Libération.
Agnès is currently a correspondent for the influential French arts weekly Télérama and the Italian political weekly L'Espresso, and is a regular contributor to the BBC on politics and films, also appearing on Channel 4 and Channel 5. She writes articles, essays and comments for the Guardian, the Observer, the Evening Standard and the Independent on Sunday, and hosts a blog on Guardian Unlimited’s award-winning Comment Is Free site. She has produced and presented series for Radio France, and served as an independent adviser on British films for Thierry Frémaux, artistic director of the Cannes Film Festival since 2001.
Her first book, Les Nouveaux Anglais, came out in France in 2005, and was followed in 2006 by Le Modèle Anglais, une illusion Française – she later adapted this book, and Touché! A French Woman's Take on the English was published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Her website, available in both English and French, is www.agnespoirier.com.
Recent books:
Touché! A French Woman's Take on the English (Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2006)
Le Modèle Anglais, une illusion Française (Alvik: 2006)
Les Nouveaux Anglais (Alvik: 2005)
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