Vauro Senesi (born 24 March 1955) is an Italian

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and

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. Vauro was born in

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. He was Pino Zac's apprentice, and, together with

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and others, in September 1978 they founded '' Il Male'', a satirical weekly newspaper. It was published until March 1982. His cartoons have been published in magazines such as ''Satyricon'', '' Linus'', ''

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'', ''I quaderni del Sale'', ''L'Echo des Savanes'' and ''

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''. He is director of the satirical e-weekly ''Boxer'', collaborator of ''

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'' and Smemoranda. In 1996, he won the Political Satirist Prize of

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. Vauro received international attention in 2009 when he was dismissed from

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over controversial drawings he had shown during a broadcast of the series ''Annozero''. In June 2011 Vauro Senesi announced his intention to sail with the Free Gaza Flotilla setting out to defy the Israeli blockade of the

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. He published in

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an "Open Letter to an Admiral", addressed to Admiral

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of the

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and setting out his reasons for this act.

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* ww.http://vau.ro/ 1955 births Living people People from Pistoia Italian satirists Italian magazine cartoonists Italian political artists Italian editorial cartoonists Italian journalists Italian male journalists Italian caricaturists {{cartoonist-stub