The Polish-American journalist Anne Applebaum will receive the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2024, the award’s Foundation Board announced on Tuesday. Applebaum is a writer for The Atlantic magazine in the United States who has written extensively about Central and Eastern Europe. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her book on a history of the Soviet Union’s Gulag system of prison labour camps. The award is traditionally presented at the end of the Frankfurt Book Fair, one of the world’s largest publishing industry events, and will be presented this year on October 20. “At a time when democrat…