Background
She was born in Warsaw into a family with Jewish roots, as a daughter of a journalist Daniel Passent and a poet Agnieszka Osiecka.
She was born in Warsaw into a family with Jewish roots, as a daughter of a journalist Daniel Passent and a poet Agnieszka Osiecka.
Harvard University; University of Warsaw.
Her paternal grandparents were killed during the Holocaust in the Warsaw Ghetto. Her maternal grandparents - Wiktor Osiecki, a pianist and Maria Sztechman - survived World World War II and lived in Saska Kępennsylvania Passent, 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 Passent graduated with a major in German studies from Harvard University and she returned to Poland. In 1996 Passent 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.