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Winners of the Awakening World Awards festival, Tehran 2012
Received from Bita Mesbah
Please see the official web site or the Call for entries for more details.

The Awakening World Awards festival is finished and the names of the winners are being announced. The last week of the festival (5-11 June, 2012) was the most exciting part of the festival. The judges (Mostafa Assadollahi - Iran, Ebrahim Haghighi - Iran, Mostafa Goudarzi - Iran, Pekka Loiri - Finland, Alexander Faldin - Russia) were in Tehran and too busy with workshops, presentations and interviews. The closing ceremony was on Monday, 11 June, 2012, in which the names of the winners were announced. The winners in three sections are:

Poster Section:

  • Grand Prize (10,000 EU,Golden Mention, Appriciation Diploma):
    Lex Drewiniski, Germany
  • Best Artist Works (2500EU, Golden Mention, Appreciation Diploma):
    Adam Klasa, Poland
    Saeed Sheikh Beglou, Iran
    Mohammad Ghorbanali, Iran
    Sebastian Kubica, Poland
    Morteza Rahmati, Iran
  • Appreciation Diploma:
    Ali Seylan, Turkey

Photography Section:

  • Grand Prize:
    Hossein Fatemi, Iran
  • Best Artist Works:
    Ivor Prickett, United Kingdom
    Davide Monteleone, Italy
    Ashly Gilbertson, USA
    Mahmoud Bazdar, Iran

Cartoon Section:

  • Grand Prize:
    Homayoun Mahmoudi, Iran
  • Best Artist Works:
    Andrzej Graniak, Poland
    Ali Miraei, Iran
    Armen Hamonangan, Indonesia
    Galym Boranbayev, Kazakhstan
    Mohsen Asadi, Iran
More information, interviews and posters in the Opening ceremony bulletin (pdf, 1.3 Mb) and the Closing ceremony bulletin (pdf, 2.5 Mb).

Below are some of the the winning posters:


Lex Drewinski

Lex Drewinski


Lex Drewinski

Adam Klasa

Mohammad Ghorbanali

Morteza Rahmati

Saeed Sheikh Beglou


Ali Seylan



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