Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist, author, translator, and activist who has been an outspoken critic of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the President of the United States, Donald Trump. Gessen holds both Russian and US citizenship.

Gessen writes primarily in English but also in their native Russian. In addition to being the author of several non-fiction books, they have been a prolific contributor to such publications as The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta, Slate, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, and U.S. News & World Report. Since 2017, they have been a staff writer for The New Yorker.

Awards

 * 2005: National Jewish Book Award for Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace
 * 2012: Stora Journalistpriset (Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism), Guest of Honor
 * 2013: Liberty Media Corporation, Media for Liberty award for their article "The Wrath of Putin," published in the April 2012 edition of Vanity Fair
 * 2015: University of Michigan Wallenberg Medal, 24th recipient
 * 2017: National Book Award for Nonfiction for The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
 * 2018: Hitchens Prize

Links

 * Twitter