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Alessandro Gatto wins the 17th PortoCartoon World Festival 2015, Portugal

Alessandro Gatto, from Italy, is the winner of the Grand Prize of the 17th PortoCartoon World Festival 2015

Alessandro Gatto, from Italy, is the winner of the Grand Prize of the 17th PortoCartoon World Festival 2015, organized by the Portuguese Printing Press Museum, with a work named “Window”. Gatto already had in 2012 won the grand prize in this international contest.

XVII Porto Cartoon 2015 GP A Gatto - Alessandro Gatto wins the 17th PortoCartoon World Festival 2015, Portugal

The Second Prize, entitled “Safe Light” (Above) is from Izabela Kowalska-Wieczorek (Poland).

XVII Porto Cartoon 2015 2nd Izabela Kowalska Wieczorek - Alessandro Gatto wins the 17th PortoCartoon World Festival 2015, Portugal

Third Prize named “Lantern” is from the Russian Andrei Popov.

XVII Porto Cartoon 2015 3rd Andrei Popov - Alessandro Gatto wins the 17th PortoCartoon World Festival 2015, Portugal

This year’s edition included two caricature special awards, in tribute to the Literature Nobel Prize laureate novelist Ernest Hemingway(Dálcio Machado from Brazil)

and the football player Cristiano Ronaldo(Grondziel Krzysztof, from Poland)

The winners were, respectively,

XVII Porto Cartoon 2015 SP caricature Hemingway Machado - Alessandro Gatto wins the 17th PortoCartoon World Festival 2015, Portugal

XVII Porto Cartoon 2015 SP caricature C Ronaldo Grondziel - Alessandro Gatto wins the 17th PortoCartoon World Festival 2015, Portugal

The high quality of the works led the international jury to give nineteen Honourable Mentions to artists from different countries: Belgium (two), Brazil (three), Croatia (two), Spain, France, Iran (three), Poland, Portugal (three), Romania and Russia (two).

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