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 2003 book “The Gulag: A History,” on the Soviet Union’s system of prison labour camps. The award is traditionally handed out at the end of the Frankfurt Book Fair, one of the world’s largest publishing industry events, and is scheduled to be presented this year on October 20. It…