Tunisia: Zoubeir Turki is the Recipient of the November Seventh Prize for Creativity

8 November 2008

Tunis — At 85, Zoubeir Turki one of Tunisia's most illustrious painters and since yesterday, the recipient of the prestigious November 7 Prize for creativity is an artist whose work is at the same time authentic, as it is universal. His works are characterized by a personal touch, which sets them aside from any other artistic corpus.

The Prize which was delivered to him on Friday, on the occasion of the 21 st anniversary of the November 7, 1987 Change by President Ben Ali "in recognition of his pioneering works in the field of plastic arts", comes as a consecration of a life dedicated to art.

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