Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk will receive the German book industry’s prestigious Peace Prize, to be awarded at ceremonies marking the close of the Frankfurt Book Fair, reports an Agence France Presse wire story. The €25,000 award, from the Association of German Publishers and Booksellers is being given to Pamuk at a time when he has come under increasing pressure in Turkey for “publicly addressing the highly sensitive subject of the massacre of Armenians in World War I.” A statement from the prize jury says the author of such novels as My Name is Red and Snow “is committed to a concept of culture based on knowledge and respect for others. Pamuk has created a genre in which Europe and Islamic Turkey co-exist.”