Karin Schmidt-Friedrichs (left), the head of the German Booksellers and Publishers Association, speaks as British-US author Salman Rushdie is awarded with the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade at St Paul’s Church (Paulskirche) in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany on Oct. 22, 2023. The international peace prize is awarded annually by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, which runs the Frankfurt Book Fair.