The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade is an international peace prize . The award is presented annually at the Frankfurt Book Fair in the Paulskirche ( Frankfurt am Main ) to a personality “who has made an outstanding contribution to the realization of the idea of ​​peace, primarily through their work in the fields of literature, science and art.” The Peace Prize is awarded by the German Book Trade Association and comes with prize money of 25,000 euros. The honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest book fair in the world, is associated with international publicity. In 2023, the awards ceremony was held on October 22nd; The award went to the Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie . The Peace Prize goes back to the initiative of a few writers and publishers in 1949 and was first awarded in Hamburg in 1950 as the “Peace Prize of German Publishers”. In 1951 it became a price for the entire book trade by the German Book Trade Association. It was awarded posthumously for the first time in 1972. The award winners are determined by the Board of Trustees. Suggestions can come from anyone and must be sufficiently justified and documented.