Editrice il Sirente is an Italian book publisher with specialisms in human rights and international law, Arabic fiction and comics, investigation, actuality.
The company was founded in 1998. The catalog, including works of nonfiction on topics mainly attributable to politics and international law, works of fiction and fantastic intertwined with the theme of marginality as detailed in the manifesto Pensieri dal carcere (Quelques messages personnels) by Pierre Clémenti. In his long catalog provides many Canadian authors such as Hubert Aquin, François Barcelo, Norman Nawrocki, Gaëtan Brulotte and Italian Giovanni Conso, Piero Fassino, Flavia Lattanzi, Umberto Leanza, Antonio Marchesi, Danilo Zolo, and Paolo Benvenuti. Among others, more recently, some Arab writers like Khaled Al Khamissi, Nawal al-Sa‘dawi and Magdy El Shafee of the series Altriarabi, and others like Steve LeVine in the series Inchieste.
Principal authors published
: Topi, Eneida
: Ondjaki
: Almino, João Carvalho, Bernardo
: Aquin, Hubert Barcelo, François Carpentier, André Brulotte, Gaëtan Nawrocki, Norman Schabas, William A.
: Aladdin, Muhammad Khamissi, Khaled Al El Kamhawi, Ezzat Nàgi, Ahmed Sa‘dawi, Nawal al- Shafee, Magdy El
: Al Galidi, Rodaan
: Clémenti, Pierre Ruiller, Jerome Guène, Faïza Adimi, Kaouther Azzeddine, Saphia
: Khider, Abbas
: Blasim, Hassan
: Benvenuti, Paolo Chiuppani, Beppe Conso, Giovanni Di Pasquale, Massimiliano Fassino, Piero Latino, Agostina Lattanzi, Flavia Leanza, Umberto Marchesi, Antonio Moccia, Gabriele Prikedelik Santori, Valeria Zeno-Zencovich, Vincenzo Zolo, Danilo
: Zankoul, Maya
: Abu Oksa Daoud, Suheir Bakriyyah, Raja' Hlehel, Ala Musallam, Akram Naffa', Hisham Shalash, Bashir Taha, Muhammad Ali
: Dibo, Mohammed Haji, Golan Sirees, Nihad
: LeVine, Steve Spitzmiller, Rebecca
: Mpe, Phaswane
: Dabbagh, Selma Sukkar, Sumia
: Daniel Nsereko
Series
Diritto (1999) Series devoted to essays on international law.
Fuori (2007) Series open, graphically represented as a cyclical book: the front cover is the first page of the novel to give the reader a chance to plunge immediately into the story, until graphic image placed on the back cover, giving the reader a chance to continue reading, again from the beginning. The first issue comes out on November 3, 2007. N. Italian title Original title and year Author Nationality Year in Italy 1 L'Anarchico e il Diavolo fanno cabaret (The Anarchist and the Devil Do Cabaret), 2002 Norman Nawrocki 2007 2 Pensieri dal carcere (Quelques messages personnels), 2001 Pierre Clémenti 2007 3 Agénor, Agénor, Agénor e Agénor (Agénor, Agénor, Agénor et Agénor), 1981 François Barcelo 2009 4 Doppia esposizione (L'emprise), 1978 Gaëtan Brulotte 2008 5 L'amore di Narciso e altri racconti (L’amore di Narciso e altri racconti, 2010) Eneida Topi 2010 6 L'invenzione della morte (L'invention de la mort), 1991 Hubert Aquin 2010 7 Prossimo episodio (Prochain épisode), 1965 Hubert Aquin 2011 8 Racconti cubisti (Racconti cubisti), 2011 Prikedelik 2011 9 Medio Occidente (Medio Occidente), 2014 Beppi Chiuppani 2014 10 Golem XIV (Golem XIV), 1981 Stanisław Lem 2017 11 Cazzarola! Anarchia, Rom, Amore, Italia (Cazzarola! Anarchy, Romani, Love, Italy), 2015 Norman Nawrocki 2018
Altriarabi (2008) Series dedicated to the contemporary and unaligned voices of Arab world.L'Opinione delle Libertà, 2 marzo 2011 The first issue comes out on September 13, 2008. N. Italian title Original title and year Author Nationality Year in Italy 1 Taxi. Le strade del Cairo si raccontano (Taxi. Hawadit al-mashawir, 2006) Khaled Al Khamissi 2008 2 L'amore ai tempi del petrolio (Al-Hubb Fi Zaman Al-Naft: Riwayah, 2001) Nawal al-Sa‘dawi 2009 3 Rogers e la Via del Drago divorato dal Sole (Rogers, 2007) Ahmed Nàgi 2010 4 Metro (Metro, 2008) Magdy El Shafee 2010 5 La danza dello scorpione (Sîrat al-'aqrab alladhî yatasabbabu 'araqan, 2008) Akram Musallam 2011 6 Amalgam (Amalgam, 2009) Maya Zankoul 2011 7 Amalgam 2 (Amalgam Vol. 2, 2010) Maya Zankoul 2012 8 Il matto di Piazza della Libertà (Majnun sahat al-hurriyya, 2009) Hassan Blasim 2012 9 Qui finisce la terra Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud, Raja' Bakriyyah, Ala Hlehel, Akram Musallam, Hisham Naffa', Bashir Shalash, Muhammad Ali Taha 2012 10 L’autunno qui, è magico e immenso Golan Haji 2013 11 Il silenzio e il tumulto (As-Samt wa-s-sakhab, 2004) Nihad Sirees 2014 12 La città del piacere (Madīnat al-ladhdha, 1997) Ezzat El Kamhawi 2015 13 Cani sciolti (Kalb balady mudarrab, 2014) Muhammad Aladdin 2015 14 E se fossi morto? (Kaman Yushaid mawtihi, 2012) Mohammed Dibo 2015 15 Vita: istruzioni per l'uso (Istikhdam al-Hayat, 2014) Ahmed Nàgi 2016
Altriarabi Migrante (2015) In 2015 born the sub-series Migrante dedicated to the Arabic second and third generation of writers in Europe, selected for EU co-funding. The project's supports cultural and linguistic diversity, promotes the transnational circulation of European literature and intends to achieve the widest possible accessibility. It undertakes the translation of eight works from five countries in the EU (France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK) into Italian. Series N. Italian title Original title and year Author Nationality Year in Italy Altriarabi migrante 1 Se ti chiami Mohammed (Les Mohammed, 2011) Jérôme Ruiller 2015 Altriarabi migrante 2 L'autistico e il piccione viaggiatore (De autist en de postduif, 2009) Rodaan Al Galidi 2016 Altriarabi migrante 3 I miracoli (Der falsche Inder, 2008) Abbas Khider 2016 Altriarabi migrante 4 Il ragazzo di Aleppo che ha dipinto la guerra (The boy from Aleppo, 2013) Sumia Sukkar 2016 Altriarabi migrante 5 La Mecca-Phuket (La Mecque-Phuket, 2010) Saphia Azzeddine 2016 Altriarabi migrante 6 Un uomo non piange mai (Un homme, ça ne pleure pas, 2014) Faïza Guène 2017 Altriarabi migrante 7 Le ballerine di Papicha (L’envers des autres, 2010) Kaouther Adimi 2017 Altriarabi migrante 8 Fuori da Gaza (Out Of It, 2011) Selma Dabbagh 2017
Inchieste (2009) Series dedicated to news reports. N. Italian title Original title and year Author Nationality Year in Italy 1 Il petrolio e la gloria. La corsa al dominio e alle ricchezze della regione del Mar Caspio (The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea), 2007 Steve LeVine 2009 2 Il labirinto di Putin. Spie, omicidi e il cuore nero della nuova Russia (Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia), 2008 Steve LeVine 2010 3 Ucraina terra di confine. Viaggio nell'Europa sconosciuta Massimiliano Di Pasquale 2012 4 Riga magica. Cronache dal Baltico Massimiliano Di Pasquale 2015 5 Fùcino. Acqua, terra, infanzia Roberto Carvelli 2018
Nuovi percorsi (2011) Series devoted to topical subjects, published under license Creative Commons and available in version eBook on the web. N. Italian title Author Nationality Year in Italy 1 Ci vuole poco per fare una università migliore Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich 2011 2 Speranze e paure nel futuro delle rivolte arabe Gabriele Moccia 2014 3 Quando studiavamo in America Beppi Chiuppani 2016 4 La terza cultura e la mutazione letale Anna Curir 2016
Comunità alternative (2011) Ten works closed series devoted to post-colonial literature, where are explored forms of interpersonal relationship born of unconventional approaches to sexual identity, ethnicity, cultural and religious diversity, thus offering new ways of conception of social and human relations. N. Italian title Original title and year Author Nationality Year in Italy 1 Benvenuti a Hillbrow (Welcome to Our Hillbrow, 2001) Phaswane Mpe 2011 2 Le cinque stagioni dell’amore (As Cinco Estações do Amor, 2001) João Almino 2012 3 NonnaDiciannove e il segreto del sovietico (AvóDezanove e o Segredo do Soviético, 2008) Ondjaki 2014
Awards and honors On December 4, 2014, the publishing house received the «Special Award Franco Cuomo International Award» for the «development of new forms of cultural expression, social and human of our time». Creative Europe Literally Translation 2015: The Project «Altriarabi Migrante» consists of seven volumes. The selection includes works published between 2003 and 2014 by European Authors of Arab origin (1°-2° generation), born from 1971 to 1992, from France, the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands (countries with the highest percentage of Arab immigrants). The books have a high quality, which has allowed them to win prizes. The works are characterized by an analysis of the sense of belonging and national identity, torn between the land of origin, modernity and Europe and the discomfort this conflict brings. Strong themes of cultural hybridization emerge: in some works it arises from a language mixed with Arabic words and hybrid structures between new and original language. There is a constant reformulation of power relations between real and symbolic centres and fringes. Librinfestival 2016 as «Best Publisher»: E se fossi morto? (Kaman Yushaid mawtihi, 2012) by Mohammed Dibo, 2015. Librinfestival 2017 as «Best Book»: Il ragazzo di Aleppo che ha dipinto la guerra (The boy from Aleppo, 2013) by Sumia Sukkar, 2016.
Notes This article was based substantially on its counterpart in the Italian Wikipedia, il Sirente.
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