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Il Sirente

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Parent company
  
Independent

Country of origin
  
Italy

Publication types
  
Books

Founder
  
Enrico Monier

Number of employees
  
6

Status
  
Active

Distribution
  
Worldwide

Imprints
  
70

Founded
  
1998

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Headquarters location
  
Ripa di Fagnano Alto, Fagnano Alto, Italy

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Editrice il Sirente is an Italian book publisher with specialisms in human rights and international law, Arabic fiction and comics, investigation, actuality.

Contents

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.

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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.

Altriarabi (2008)

Series dedicated to the contemporary and unaligned voices of Arab world. The first issue comes out on September 13, 2008.

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.

Inchieste (2009)

Series dedicated to news reports.

Nuovi percorsi (2011)

Series devoted to topical subjects, published under license Creative Commons and available in version eBook on the web.

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.

Awards and honors

On December 4, 2014, the publishing house has received the Special Award Franco Cuomo International Award for the «development of new forms of cultural expression, social and human of our time».

References

Il Sirente Wikipedia