Daniel Passent
Daniel Passent (born April 28, 1938 in Stanislau, Poland , today: Ivano-Frankiwsk , Ukraine ) is a Polish journalist .
Daniel Passent studied journalism in Warsaw , Leningrad , Princeton University and Harvard University in the 1950s and 1960s. In the second year of his studies at the University of Warsaw in 1956, he began his journalistic work for the communist youth magazine Sztandar Młodych (Flag of the Boys). Since 1959 he has worked for the political weekly magazine Polityka , interrupted only by visits abroad. Passent speaks five languages. From 1990 to 1997 he was an editor in Boston for the Spanish-language monthly magazine El Diario Mundial ; 1997 to 2002 Polish ambassador to Chile .
In addition to his reports and columns, he wrote several books, including about the Vietnam War , the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, the drug problem in the United States and about the only Polish world-class tennis player Wojciech Fibak . While still a student, he wrote satirical cabaret numbers for the student cabaret STS. Here he met his future wife Agnieszka Osiecka , with whom he had a daughter. Agata Passent is meanwhile also a journalist and also studied at Harvard. He also translated books and texts by James Baldwin and Martin Luther King into Polish .
Today he has a very popular weekly column in the weekly Polityka.
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| SURNAME | Passent, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stanislau , Poland |