Editing Masha Gessen

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| date_birth=13 January 1967
| place_birth=Moscow, Russia
| nationality=USA & Russia
| pronouns=[[they/them]]<ref name="tweet">{{cite tweet|user=mashagessen|number=1275529665466302466|title=I avoided the topic of pronouns for a while, but when my new book was coming out, it seemed I had to make a decision about self-presentation. I am trans*, nonbinary, so I asked to be referred to as "they." It's been an instructive few weeks.|date=23 June 2020}}</ref>
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| occupation=journalist, author, translator, and activist
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'''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''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/National+Jewish+Book+Award|title=National Jewish Book Award {{!}} Book awards {{!}} LibraryThing|website=www.librarything.com|access-date=2020-01-18}}</ref> 
*2012: Stora Journalistpriset (Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism), Guest of Honor<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.storajournalistpriset.se/about/|title=About - Stora Journalistpriset|website=www.storajournalistpriset.se}}</ref>
* 2013: Liberty Media Corporation, Media for Liberty award for their article "The Wrath of Putin," published in the April 2012 edition of ''Vanity Fair''<ref name=DF>{{cite web|last=Business Wire|title=2013 Media for Liberty Award Honors Vanity Fair's "The Wrath of Putin" by Masha Gessen|url=http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/03/14/2013-media-for-liberty-award-honors-vanity-fairs-t/|work=Daily Finance}}</ref>
* 2015: University of Michigan Wallenberg Medal, 24th recipient<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wallenberg.umich.edu/news-and-events/masha-gessen-to-receive-wallenberg-medal/|title=Masha Gessen to Receive Wallenberg Medal – Wallenberg Legacy, University of Michigan|first=Wallenberg|last=Committee}}</ref>
*2017: National Book Award for Nonfiction for ''The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-national-book-award-winners-20171115-story.html|title=Masha Gessen, Jesmyn Ward, Robin Benway and Frank Bidart win National Book Awards|last=Kellogg|first=Carolyn|work=Los Angeles Times|date=15 November 2017|accessdate=16 November 2017}}</ref>
*2018: Hitchens Prize <ref>{{cite web |title=2018 Prize - Masha Gessen |url=http://www.dvrf.org/2018-masha-gessen |publisher=The Dennis & Victoria Ross Foundation}}</ref>

==Links==
*[https://twitter.com/mashagessen Twitter]

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