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M. Gessen
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Russian-American journalist and activist
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M. Gessen is a journalist, translator, political activist, and academic born in Moscow in 1967. A native Russian speaker who also writes in English, they hold citizenship in the Soviet Union, Russia, and the United States. Gessen resides in New York City and is employed by Amherst College and The New Yorker. They have written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books.
The author has received the Kurt Tucholsky Prize, the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Hannah Arendt Prize. Gessen has three children and has a sibling named Keith Gessen. Their birth name is Мария Александровна Гессен, and they are also known by the names Mariya, Masha, and Маша Гессен.
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Moscow, Russia
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 is nonbinary and trans and uses they/them pronouns. Gessen has written extensively on LGBT rights.
Known for
- Full Frontal with Samantha Bee — Self2016
- Pussy Riot: The Movement2013
- Q&A — Self - Panellist2008
- The School for Scandal2002
- Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- transgender
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Moscow
- Sibling
- Keith Gessen
- Occupation
- writer
- Employer
- The New Yorker
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Russian
- Image
- Gessen, Masha1.jpeg
- Number of children
- 3
- Residence
- New York City
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- date of birth
- 1967-01-13
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- Masha Gessen
- social media followers
- 134520
- has written for
- The New York Review of Books
- contributed to creative work
- The New Yorker
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Маша Гессен
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- birth name
- Мария Александровна Гессен
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