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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,
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, 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)


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Passig, Kathrin 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