The Peace Prize has been awarded since 1950 by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association.
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“We might have understood many things sooner if we had read Karl Schlögel earlier and more often,” the association’s chairwoman said at the fair on Friday.
The award, endowed with €250,000 ($292,000), will be presented in St Paul’s Church in Frankfurt.
