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.