Thanks

Thanks!

Over 250 authors from 71 countries around the world participated in the fifth edition of the World Humor Awards.

AFGHANISTAN: Shaid Atiqullah

ALBANIA: Agim Sulaj 

ALGERIA: Youcef Aimeur

ARGENTINA: Omar Perez, Favelis-Outeda, Alejandro Becares, Marlene Pohle, Ana Maria Pilipczuk, Marcelo Guerra, Gerardo Perez

ARMENIA: Arsen Gevorgyan

AUSTRALIA: Louis Pol, Mark Lynch

AUSTRIA: Stefan Wenczel, Klaus Pitter

AZERBAIJAN:Seyran Caferli

BAHRAIN: Ali Al Sumaikh

BELGIO: Constantin Sunnerberg, Luc Vernimmen, Luc Descheemaeker

BOSNIA: Hasan Fazlic, Resad Sultanovic

BRASILE: Carlos Amorim, Silvano Mello, Thiago Lucas, Cival Einstein, Suélen Becker

BULGARIA: Galina Pavlova, Jovcho Savov, Anatoly Stankulov

BURKINA FASO: Damien Glez

CANADA: Hector Valladares, Guy Badeaux

CECA REPUBBLICA: Evzen David

CILE: Jaime Huerta

CINA: Qigong Huang, Qiang Liu, Yong Zhang, Bilig Ba, Shaowei Zhu

COLOMBIA: Elena Ospina, Raul Fernando Zuleta, Jorge A. Restrepo, Giovanny Paez Munoz, Raul Grisales, Stella Peralta

COSTA RICA: Arcadio Esquivel

CUBA: Ramses Morales, Alfredo Martirena, Michel Moro Gomez, Alex Falco Chang

CROAZIA: Miroslav Gerencer, Damir Novak, Natasa Rasovic

DANIMARCA: Niels Bo Bojesen, Erik Petry

ECUADOR: Pancho Cajas

EGITTO: Hader Yehia, Fawzy Morsy, Emad Abdelmaksud, Wesam Khalil

ESTONIA: Ester Lauringson

FRANCIA: Pierre Ballouhey, Jean-Loïc Belhomme, Bernard Bouton, Anne Derenne, Batti Manfruelli, Christine Traxeler, Jean-Michel  Renault, Jean-Michel Gruet and Olivier Raynaud (Jury)

GERMANIA: Rainer Ehrt,  Sabine Voigt, Werner Rollow

GIAPPONE: Ayako Saito, Kunikazu Noguchi, Chiriro Noguchi

GIORDANIA: Osama Hajjaj

GRECIA: Konstantinos Tsanakas (Jury)

INDIA:  Shankar Pamarthy, Kanika Mishra, Iaganesh Subramaniam

INDONESIA: Jitet Kustana, Doddy Iswahyudi 

IRAN: Sharhokh heidari, Firoozeh Mozaffari, Laleh Ziai, Sepideh Anjomrooz, Javad Takjoo, Mahboubeh Pakdel, Nahid Zamani, Keyvan Varesi, Nahid Maghsoudi, Mansoure Deghani, Hadis Moradzadeh, Nasrin Sheykhi, Farzane VasiriTabar, Mozhdeh Malek Oghli, Shirin Gholipour, Sajad Rafeei, Marziyeh Khanizade, Emad Salehi, Sepideh Faramarzi

IRAQ: Abdul Raheem Yassir, Ali Mandalawi

ISRAELE: Boris Eremburg, Grigori Katz, Ilya Katz, Kfir Weizman

KAZAKHSTAN: Galym Boranbayev 

LETTONIA: Valta Klints, Gatis Sluka

LIBANO: Bleibel Hassan, Anas Lakkis

LUSSEMBURGO: Pol Leurs

MAROCCO: Jabir Adnane, Naji Benaji

MESSICO: Angel Boligan, Fernando Mendez

MOLDAVIA: Valeriu Kurtu, Alexander Kaminsky

MONTENEGRO: Darko Drljevic, Luka Lagator

NORVEGIA: Abou Hassan Fadi, Egil Nyhus, Siri Dokken, Firuz Kutal, Roar Hagen

NUOVA ZELANDA: Murray Webb

OLANDA:Tjeerd Royaaards, Jean Gouders

PALESTINA: Mohammad Sabaaneh

PERU: Julio Angel Carrion Cueva, Walter Toscano

POLONIA: Dariusz Dabrowski, Patricia Longawa, Zygmunt Zaradkiewicz, Izabela Kowalska Wieczorek, Luczynski Slawomir

PORTOGALLO: Pedro Silva, Vasco Gargalo

REGNO UNITO: Vincent Woodcock, Ross Thomson, Clive Goddard

ROMANIA: Doru Axinte, Nicoleta Ionescu, Likviu Stanila, Cris Horia

RUSSIA: Mikhail Zlatkovsky, Vladimir Semerenko, Alexander Yakovlev

SERBIA: Tošo Borković, Milenko Kosanovic, Spiro Radulovic, Jugoslav Vlahovic, Mileta Miloradovic and Gradimir Smudja (special guest)

SIRIA: Fahd Bahady

SLOVACCHIA: Andrej Hascak

SPAGNA: Manuel Arriaga, Miguel Sanchez Villalba, Ernesto Priego, Asier Sanz, Joaquin Aldeguer, Maria Picasso’ i Piquer, Jorge Martinez

SUDAN: Elrayah Ombaddi

SVEZIA: Mahmoud Abbas

SVIZZERA: Patrick Chappatte, Vincent Chevalley, Hanspeter Wyss, Alexia Papadopoulos, Regina Vetter

TAIWAN: Chia-hui Liu, Wang Rui-min, Kuan Yu Shih,

TUNISIA: Tawfiq Omrane

TURCHIA: Musa Gumus, Erdogan Karayel, Yuksel Cengiz. Hilal Ozcan, Engin Selcuk, Ali Sur, Tan Oral, Hicabi Demirci, Ahmad Rahma

UCRAINA: Vladimir Kazanevsky, Nataliia Kryzhanovska, Elena Zheleznyak, Oleksiy Kustovsky, Alice Mael, Sergei Semendyaev and  Konstantin Kazanchev (Jury)

UNGHERIA: Istvan Kelemen, Ferenc Szenasi

URUGUAY: Luis Haro Dominguez

USA: Kevin Kallaugher, Jessica Warrick, Felipe Galindo, Ed Wexler, Angie Jordan

UZBEKISTAN: Makhmud Eshonqulov,

VENEZUELA: Jose Vargas

ITALIA: Gianni Audisio, Cristina Bernazzani, Andrea Bersani, Luca Bertolotti, Emiliano Bruzzone, Massimo Bucchi, Nicola Bucci, Virginia Cabrfas, Angelo Campaner,  Leonardo Cannistrà, Athos Careghi, Gianni Chiostri, Guido Clericetti, Lido Contemori, Gabriele Corvi, Marco D’Agostino, Milko Dalla Battista, Emanuele Del Rosso, Franco Donarelli, Bicio Fabbri, Francesco Federighi, Isabella Ferrante, Fabio Finocchioli, Marco Fusi, Antonio Guarene, Valerio Held, GianLorenzo Ingrami, Emilio Isca, Alfio Leotta, Agostino Longo, Fabio Magnasciutti, Mario Magnatti, Roberto Mangosi, Ro Marcenaro, Riccardo Mazzoli, Antonio Mele, Marilena Nardi, Benny Nicolini, Claudio Onesti, Andrea Pecchia, MariaGrazia Quaranta, Umberto Rigotti, Eugenio SaintPierre,  Achille Superbi, Stefano Tartarotti, Sergio Tessarolo, Lamberto Tomassini, Assunta Toti Buratti, Pietro Vanessi, Lorenzo Vannini  and Guido Silvestri, Bruno Bozzetto (special prizes) with Lucio Trojano, Marco De Angelis, Guido De Maria, Gianandrea Bianchi (Jury)