Agata Passent Biography
Agata Maria P*ent (born 4 February 1973) is a Polish journalist and writer.
Biography
P*ent was born in Warsaw into a family with Jewish roots, as a daughter of a journalist Daniel P*ent and a poet Agnieszka Osiecka. Her Christian maternal grandparents – Wiktor Osiecki, a pianist and Maria Sztechman – survived World War II and lived in Saska Kępa. Her Jewish paternal grandparents were killed during the Holocaust in the Warsaw Ghetto. P*ent, who spent her childhood in Falenica, came back to Warsaw with her family at the 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. In 1995 Agata P*ent graduated with a major in German studies from Harvard University and she returned to Poland.
In 1996 P*ent debuted as a journalist in the Polish magazine, Twój Styl (En. Your Style). One year later, she founded The Okularnicy Foundation (En. The Nerds' Foundation), whose main purpose is to protect and popularise Agnieszka Osiecka's works. In the years 2005–2006 P*ent was connected with Radio PiN and since 2006 she is writing feuilletons for the magazine Twoje Dziecko (En. Your Child).
P*ent has been married twice: to Wojciech Borowski in 2001 and to Wojciech Kuczok, a writer, whom she married in 2013. She has a son, Jakub, with photographer Wojciech Wieteska. P*ent describes herself as an atheist.
Books
- Stacja Warszawa (Station Warsaw), 2007.
- Jest fantastycznie (It's fantastic), 2004.
- Miastówka, 2002.
- Olbiński i opera (Olbiński and the opera), 2003.
- Pałac wiecznie żywy (Long live the Palace), 2004.
- Kto to Pani zrobił?, 2014.
External links
- Agata P*ent's blog (in Polish).
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