Agata Passent
Agata Passent | |
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 Agata Passent | |
| Born | 4 February 1973 Warsaw, Poland |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 1996 – present |
| Spouse | Wojciech Wieteska |
Agata Passent (born on 4 February 1973 in Warsaw) is a Polish journalist and writer.
Biography
She was born in Warsaw into a family with Jewish roots, as a daughter of a journalist Daniel Passent and a poet Agnieszka Osiecka. Both of her parents were atheists. Her paternal grandparents were killed during the Holocaust in the Warsaw Ghetto.[1] Her maternal grandparents, a pianist Wiktor Osiecki and Maria Sztechman, survived the World War II and lived in Saska Kępa. Passent, who spent her childhood in Falenica, came back with her family to Warsaw at age of five. In 1979 they moved to Cambridge, then back to Warsaw and then to Newton, where she graduated from the Buckingham Browne & Nichols school.[1] In 1995 Agata Passent graduated the German studies from the Harvard University[1] and she has came back to Poland.
In 1996 Passent debuted as a journalist in the Polish magazine, Twój Styl (En. Your Style). One year later, she had founded The Okularnicy Foundation (En. The Nerds' Foundation), which holds as its general purpose the protection and popularization of Agnieszka Osiecka's works. In the years 2005-2006 Passent was connected with Radio PiN and since 2006 she is writing feuilletons for the magazine Twoje Dziecko (En. Your Child).
Agata Passent is married with a film director Wojciech Wieteska, they have one son, Jakub. Passent is a member of the Jewish Community in Warsaw, but she describes herself as an atheist.[2]
Books
- Stacja Warszawa (Station Warsaw)
- Jest fantastycznie (It's fantastic)
- Miastówka
- Olbiński i opera (Olbiński and the opera)
- Pałac wiecznie żywy (Long live the Palace)
References
- ^ a b c Agata Passent's Biography (Polish)
- ^ Kim są polskie ateistki? (Who are the Polish atheists?); TVN (Polish)