On 1st of October at 6 pm was the opening of the eleventh edition of the international biennial "Masters of Caricature".
This year topic was "The Museum".
In the eleventh edition of the International Biennale “Masters of Caricature”, Plovdiv, 2021 took part 115 artists with 260 cartoons. They present 37 different countries from Europe, North and Latin America, Asia, Africa.
The jury consisted the members: Assoc. Prof. Angel Yankov, PhD (director, REM – Plovdiv), Tsocho Peev (Plovdiv Cartoonists Association), Assoc. Prof. Svetla Dimitrova, PhD (president of UARD), Irien Trendafilov (Plovdiv Cartoonists Association), Iliyan Savkov (artist). They have awarded the following names with the title Master of Cartoon for 2021:
Hristo Nedyalkov, Bulgaria
Miro Georgijevski, North Macedonia
Yalda Hasheminezhad, Iran
Nikolay Popov, Russia
Mehmet Zeber, Turkey
The Special Prize of the President of the University of Agribusiness and rural development – Plovdiv goes to:
Slobodan Butir, Croatia
