Martin Gelin

About

Martin Gelin is a journalist and award-winning author of seven 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 also written for The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Bloomberg, Slate, 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.Martin Gelin 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.He is the author of the forthcoming books: "The White Storm: How Racism Poisoned American Democracy" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024) and "Rules of Attraction: Why Soft Power Matters in Hard Times" (Wildfire/Hachette, 2025).His two recent books 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.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.