Agnès Poirier

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, the New Statesman and The Independent on Sunday. She is also a correspondent for Marianne, La Vie and the Italian L'Espresso. Between 2001 and 2006 she was a film critic for Libération. She advises the Cannes Film Festival about British films.

She is currently (2020) a regular panel member of the British Broadcasting Corporation's Dateline London public affairs television discussion programme.

• Les nouveaux Anglais : clichés revisités. Paris: 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, ISBN 2914833539
• Les Pintades à Londres, 2008
• "Cashing in on Céline's anti-semitism". NYR Daily. 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, ISBN 9781408857465
• "Notre-Dame, The Soul of France" 2020, Oneworld Publications (ISBN 9781786077998)

• AgnesPoirier.org official website
• The Guardian Profile, The Guardian