Masha Gessen, an American and Russian journalist, LGBT activist, and openly non-binary lesbian, won the Pulitzer Prize in the “Opinion” (Opinion Writing) for an essay published in The New York Times (NYT).
The award organizers stated that Hessen was honored “for her insightful collection of essays on the rise of authoritarian regimes, which draws on historical facts and personal experience and helps explore timely themes of oppression, belonging, and exile.”
Part of the Pulitzer Prize nomination was a piece by Masha Hessen titled “The Feeling You Get When You Lose Your Country. I Know It Well.”
In total, journalists from The New York Times have won three Pulitzer Prizes, including for their investigations into U.S. President Donald Trump and their photojournalism from the Gaza Strip. The winner in the top category—for service to the public—was The Washington Post, which received the award for its coverage of the Donald Trump administration’s restructuring of U.S. federal agencies.
Masha Gessen worked for the magazines *Bolshoy Gorod*, *Snob*, and *Vokrug Sveta*, and also served as director of the Russian service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (an organization designated as a “foreign agent” and deemed undesirable in the Russian Federation). She has lived and worked in the United States since 2013. In December 2023, Moscow’s Basmanny Court issued an arrest warrant in absentia for Masha Hessen on charges of spreading knowingly false information about the Russian army.
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