Kathrin Passig (born 4 June 1970) is a German author.
Biography
Passig was born in 1970
in
Deggendorf, a small town in
Lower Bavaria. She is editor and programmer of the blog "Riesenmaschine"
which received the Grimme Online Award 2006, awarded by the renowned Adolf-Grimme-Institut. The same year, her short story "Sie befinden sich hier" ("You are here") got her the
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.
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
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his nearly 70-year ...
,
Jacob Weisberg, and
Harlan Coben.
Works
* with Ira Strübel: ''Die Wahl der Qual'' (2000, Rowohlt)
* ''Sie befinden sich hier'' (2006, transl
''You are here''by Lucy Powell)
* with Holm Friebe: ''Das nächste große Ding'' (2007, Rowohlt)
* with Aleks Scholz: ''Lexikon des Unwissens'' (2007, Rowohlt)
* with Ira Strübel: ''Strübel & Passig. Gesammelte Kolumnen'' (2007, Verbrecher)
* with
Sascha Lobo: ''Dinge geregelt kriegen – ohne einen Funken Selbstdisziplin'' (2009, Rowohlt)
* with Aleks Scholz: ''Verirren. Eine Anleitung für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene'' (2010, Rowohlt)
* with Aleks Scholz and Kai Schreiber: ''Das neue Lexikon des Unwissens.'' (2011, Rowohlt)
* with
Sascha Lobo: ''Internet – Segen oder Fluch'' (2012, Rowohlt)
* with Johannes Jander: ''Weniger schlecht programmieren'' (2013, O'Reilly)
References
External links
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1970 births
Living people
People from Deggendorf
Writers from Berlin
German women short story writers
German short story writers
German women writers
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize winners