Touka Neyestani, is an award-winning Iranian cartoonist

Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

  who lives in Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. He is the brother of Mana Neyestani

Mana Neyestani

Mana Neyestani is an Iranian cartoonist. He is the brother of Touka Neyestani, who is also a cartoonist.-Biography:He is of Iranian Azeri ethnicity. Riots erupted by ethnic Azeris in Iran when they took offense in Mana Neyestani's , published in the children's section of the 12 May 2006 supplement...

, who is also a cartoonist.

Career

An ethnic Persian

Persian people

The Persian people are part of the Iranian peoples who speak the modern Persian language and closely akin Iranian dialects and languages. The origin of the ethnic Iranian/Persian peoples are traced to the Ancient Iranian peoples, who were part of the ancient Indo-Iranians and themselves part of...

, he collaborates with more than 40 newspapers in Iran, he also does cartooning for "Nebel Spalter", a weekly printed in Switzerland. He has participated in several international cartoon exhibitions taking place in Japan, Belgium, Turkey, Iran, and Italy.

Awards

He is the winner of several prizes from International cartoon exhibitions:

• The Fifth Yomiuri Shimbun Cartoon Contest - Excellence Prize - 1984.
• 11th Simavi International Cartoon Competition - Honorable Mention - 1993.
• First International Cartoon Competition, "Iran": "Man and Nature" - Honorable Mention - 1997.
• Sbadiglio Umoristico - Honorable Mention - 1998.

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