Agnès Poirier
Illustration — Poirier in 2018 Agnès Catherine Poirier (lang; born 1975) is a French journalist, writer and commentator. She covers the United Kingdom for the French weekly L'Express and frequently contributes to national newspapers in the UK, Europe, and North America. She regularly presents and produces radio programmes for the BBC Radio, BBC World Service, and Radio France, and often appears as a commentator on major television networks internationally.
Also recorded as Agnès C. Poirier
Agnès Poirier
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- Full name
- Agnès Catherine Poirier.
- Born
- 1975. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- journalist, essayist, film critic and film director.
- Fields
- essay.
- Education
- London School of Economics and Political Science and Sciences Po.
- Languages
- French.
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She is the author of several books including Notre Dame: The Soul of France and Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940–1950.
Born in Paris, Poirier has lived and worked in London since the late 1990s, initially as a doctoral student at the London School of Economics, and currently resides between the two cities.
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Career
Poirier has written for Le Nouvel Observateur, Le Monde, the Italian L'Espresso and her work in English has featured in The Guardian, The Times, the New Statesman, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Independent on Sunday. She has been a UK correspondent for Libération, Le Figaro, Marianne, La Vie and L'Express. She is the author of several books in French and in English, translated in a dozen languages. She has been a regular panel member of the British Broadcasting Corporation's Dateline London public affairs television discussion programme since 2000. She preselects British films for Cannes Film Festival.
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- 1.Press. Agnes C. Poirier.
- 2.Radio. Agnes C. Poirier.
- 3.TV. Agnes C. Poirier.
- 4.Robb, Graham. Notre-Dame: The Soul of France by Agnes Poirier – review. The Spectator. 4 April 2020.
- 5.Strange, Alice J. Left bank: Art, passion, and the rebirth of paris, 1940–50 by agnès poirier (review). The French Review. 93. 1. 219. October 2019. 10.1353/tfr.2019.0127.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 7
- Poirier, Agnès. Les nouveaux Anglais : clichés revisités. Alvik Editions. 2005.
- Touché, A French woman's take on the English, 2006, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Le Modèle anglais, une illusion française, 14 September 2006, Alvik Editions,
- Les Pintades à Londres, 2008
- Poirier, Agnès. Cashing in on Céline's anti-semitism. The New York Review of Books. January 12, 2018.
- Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940–1950, 8 March 2018, Bloomsbury Publishing,
- "Notre-Dame, The Soul of France" 2020, Oneworld Publications ( )
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