{{Short description|Italian journalist and satirical cartoonist}} {{BLP sources|date=May 2010}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Infobox person | name = Vauro Senesi | image = Vauro Senesi 2011.jpg | caption = | birthname = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1955|03|24}} | birth_place = Pistoia, Italy |height = {{convert|1.76|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | occupation = journalist, satirical cartoonist | years_active = }}
'''Vauro Senesi''' (born 24 March 1955), often known mononymously as '''Vauro''', is an Italian journalist and satirical cartoonist.
Vauro was born in Pistoia. He was Pino Zac's apprentice, and, together with Giancarlo Fusco, Cinzia Leone 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'', ''Cuore'', ''I quaderni del Sale'', ''L'Echo des Savanes'' and ''El Jueves''.
He is director of the satirical e-weekly ''Boxer'', collaborator of ''Il Corriere della Sera'' and Smemoranda. In 1996, he won the Political Satirist Prize of Forte dei Marmi. Vauro received international attention in 2009 when he was dismissed from RAI over controversial drawings he had shown during a broadcast of the series ''Annozero''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6111316.ece|title=Pope Benedict XVI to visit the Abruzzo earthquake zone|date=17 April 2009|work=The Times|access-date=27 May 2010 | location=London | first=Richard | last=Owen}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCATRE53E6FR20090415|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229184733/http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCATRE53E6FR20090415|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 February 2012|title=Italy state TV fires cartoonist for quake drawing|date=15 April 2009|publisher=Thomson Reuters|access-date=27 May 2010}}</ref>
In June 2011, Senesi announced his intention to sail with the Free Gaza Flotilla setting out to defy the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. He published in ''Il Manifesto'' an "Open Letter to an Admiral", addressed to Admiral Eli Marom of the Israeli Navy and setting out his reasons for this act.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ilmanifesto.it/area-abbonati/in-edicola/manip2n1/20110625/manip2pg/01/manip2pz/305529/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110915121739/http://www.ilmanifesto.it/area-abbonati/in-edicola/manip2n1/20110625/manip2pg/01/manip2pz/305529/| archive-date = 2011-09-15| title = IL MANIFESTO}}</ref>
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==External links== *[www.http://vau.ro/] {{commons}}
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