Background
Passig was born in 1970 in Deggendorf, a small town in Lower Bavaria.
Passig was born in 1970 in Deggendorf, a small town in Lower Bavaria.
One of her most successful books is "Lexikon des Unwissens – Worauf es bisher keine Antwort gibt" ("Encyclopedia of Ignorance – Everything we don"t know so far") published by Rowohlt in 2007. She also works as a translator, among her translations are works by William Leonard Marshall, Bob Dylan, Jacob Weisberg, and Harlan Coben.