Frankfurt (dpa) The organizers of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade have said that the laudatory speech at this year’s award ceremony will be given by the Russian human rights activist, Irina Scherbakova. They announced in June that the prize itself will be awarded to the Polish-American historian and journalist Anne Applebaum. In a statement released on Monday the German Publishers and Booksellers Association described Scherbakova as one of the best-known human rights activists in Russia and the former Soviet Union. She was born in Moscow in 1949 and worked as a translator of German-la…