Martin Gelin Author

Martin Gelin is a journalist and award-winning author of eight books on

American politics and culture. Since 2011, he has been the U.S.

Correspondent for Dagens Nyheter, a national newspaper in Sweden.

He has written for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Slate, The

Guardian, Quartz, The Daily Beast, The New Republic, Parliament

Magazine, The Independent, The Prospect, Boston Review, The LA

Review of Books, Granta Magazine and Harvard’s Nieman Lab, among

others.

He has been interviewed by the BBC, CNN, NPR, Monocle, Quartz and

The Times of India, and is a regular commentator on foreign affairs for

Swedish TV and radio.

His two recent books, The American Conservatives, and The Internet is

Broken, were both finalists for the August Prize, Sweden’s highest

literary honor. He has also been awarded The Stockholm Prize and The

Johan Hansson Prize for his books. His work has been translated to

seven languages, including Chinese and French. He has lectured on

history and politics at Columbia University, New York University, The

University of Hong Kong and the Jaipur Literary Festival.

Martin Gelin is the recipient of grants from the Axson Johnson

Foundation, The Stieg Larsson Foundation, Institut Suédois, The Japan

Foundation, The Swedish Authors Union, The Swedish Federation of

Publicists and The Swedish Journalist Fund.