Pamarthy Shankar, a cartoonist working with the prominent Telugu newspaper 'Sakshi', has won the Grand Prix World Press Cartoon 2014 Award for sketching Nelson Mandela.

Shankar, who has worked as a cartoonist in several Telugu newspapers since 1998, was presented the award at Cascais in Portugal on July 11, 2015, by World Press Cartoon Director Antonio Antunes.

A Nelson Mandela caricature drawn by Shankar after the death of the iconic South African anti-apartheid leader in December 2013, fetched him the award for the year 2014, according to the website of the Portugal-based organisation. The award ceremony was supposed to be held earlier this year but got delayed due to elections in Portugal, Shankar told PTI.

Shankar's caricature has been displayed at a World Press Cartoon exhibition at Cascais in Portugal along with the top 50 works by other cartoonists in 2014, according to the organisation's website. The World Press Cartoon awards are presented in three categories every year, namely general, caricature and political, according to the website.