Borislav Stanković

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Borislav Stankovic - Serbia

Born in 1949 in Bor, Serbia, Stabor has been a professional cartoonist for 41 years and is considered as one of the most important Serbian cartoonist today. 

He currently works as a freelance political cartoonist for several prominent European magazines and newspapers such as ,,NEBELSPALTER”, ,,EULENSPIEGEL”, and for several Serbian daily magazines and newspapers. 

In 1996 Stabor was invited to ,,SEIKA” university (Kyoto, Japan) to be one of the foreign lecturers at cartooning department. 

The same university proclaimed Stabor as one of the best cartoonist in the world in 1996. The Turkish association of cartoonists chose Stabor for the Ambassador of Cartoons in 1997, and today Stabor is a member of CWS (Cartoonist & Writers Syndicate, NY, USA). 

During his long professional career in the field of cartooning, Stabor has won more than 150 important world prizes.

The most important prizes:

GOLDEN PENCIL, Legnica, Poland, 1986

GRAND-PRIX, Montreal, Canada, 1986

GOLDEN MEDAL, Semarang, Indonesia, 1986

GOLDEN MEDAL,,The YOMIURY SHIMBUN”, Tokyo, Japan, 1987

YASUO YOSHITOMI PRIZE, Kyoto, Japan, 1991

SILVER MEDAL, Seoul, South Korea, 1991

GOLDEN MEDAL,,The YOMIURI SHIMBUN”, Tokyo, Japan, 1994

GRAND-PRIX, Daeyon Expo, Seoul, South Korea, 1995

ASAHI SHIMBUN PRIZE, Kyoto, Japan, 1996

GOLDEN MEDAL, Seoul, South Korea, 1996

GOLDEN MEDAL ,,The YOMIURI SHIMBUN”, Tokyo, Japan, 1997

GRAND-PRIX,,The NEW STATESMAN” London, UK, 1998

SILVER TULIP, Eindhoven, Holland, 1998

GRAND-PRIX, Zemun, Yugoslavia (Serbia), 1998

GRAND-PRIX, Taipei, Taiwan, P.R.China, 2002

SILVER MEDAL, Porto, Portugal, 2004

SILVER MEDAL, Beijing, P.R.China, 2006

GOLDEN MEDAL, Legnica, Poland, 2007

Stabor had six personal exhibitions so far:

Canadian embassy, Belgrade, 1985

Montreal ,,GUY FEVRAU CENTER”, 1986

,,STARA KAPETANIJA”, Zemun, Serbia, 1998

MEDIA CENTER, Belgrade, 2000

Gallery ,,SZTUKI”, Legnica, Poland, 2003

Gallery ,,FORMA”, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2003

Stabor was a member of the international board of juries several times so far:

Montreal, 1987

Knokke-Haist (Belgium), 1987

Istanbul 1988 and 2001

Legnica, Poland, 2002

Bursa (Turkey), 2004

Skopje, FRO Macedonia, 2005

Ankara, Turkey, 2014

Deva (Romania), 2015