Augustin Trapenard Augustin Trapenard

Augustin Trapenard is a French academic, literary reviewer and culture journalist. He studied English and American literature at the École Normale Supérieure, where he started his teaching career as a graduate tutor. In the course of his research, he spent one year as a visiting scholar at the University of California (Berkeley). He has written for the famous magazine Elle and the Magazine Littéraire and was also in charge of the literary chronicles on several radio stations, including Nova, France 24 and France Culture's Le Carnet d'Or. For five years, he was also a cultural and literary reviewer for the popular TV show Le Grand Journal. He is now a distinguished literary and film critic, hosting Boomerang, a daily culture show on French national radio station France Inter, and two shows on French TV channel Canal+, the monthly literary programme 21 cm and the film review programme Le Cercle. He currently lives and works in Paris.