M. Gessen
Russian-American journalist and activist
- Born
- 13 January 1967, Moscow
- Age
- 59
- Birth name
- Мария Александровна Гессен
M. Gessen is a Russian American journalist, author, and translator who has written extensively on LGBT rights and authoritarian regimes. Gessen received the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Opinion Writing for their articles in The New York Times, which the Pulitzer committee called "an illuminating collection of reported essays on rising authoritarian regimes that draw on history and personal experience to probe timely themes of oppression, belonging and exile."
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