On 1st of October at 6 pm was the opening of the tenth international edition of the international biennial "Masters of Caricature". This year topic was "The Pig and the Culture". 

In the tenth anniversary edition of the International Biennale “Masters of Caricature”, Plovdiv, 2019 took part 87 artists with 203 cartoons. They present 30 different countries from Europe, North and Latin America, Asia, Africa.
The jury consisted the members: acad. Prof. Dimitar Dimitrov (president of UARD, cartoonist), assoc. Prof. Angel Yankov, PhD (director, REM – Plovdiv), Tsocho Peev (Plovdiv Cartoonists Association), Irien Trendafilov (Plovdiv Cartoonists Association), Yanko Kavrykov (painter, REM – Plovdiv). They have awarded the following names with the title Master of Cartoon for 2019:

Veselin Zidarov BULGARIA, Miroslav Bozhkov BULGARIA, Igor Smirnov RUSSIA, Izabela Kowalska-Wieczorek POLAND, Makhmudjon Eshonkulov UZBEKISTAN

The Special Prize of the President of the University of Agribusiness and rural development - Plovdiv goes to: Furkat Usmanov UZBEKISTAN And the nominations for the tenth anniversary edition are: 

Steffen Jahsnowski – Herschel GERMANY, Ali Reza Abousaidi IRAN, Huseyin Cakmak CYPRUS, Cai Weidong CHINA, Zlatko Krstevski MACEDONIA, Marco Ramos USA, Ricardo Ferreira PORTUGAL, Borta Ambrozie Ovidiu ROMANIA, Anatoly Radin RUSSIA, Erdogan Basol TURKEY, Mirsaid Gaziyev UZBEKISTAN, Husan Sodiqov UZBEKISTAN, Gennadiy Nazarov UKRAINE, Darko Drljevic MONTENEGRO

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