Il Sirente
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 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 David Ntanda 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 | , 2002 | Norman Nawrocki | 2007 | |
| 2 | Pensieri dal carcere | , 2001 | Pierre Clémenti | 2007 | |
| 3 | Agénor, Agénor, Agénor e Agénor | , 1981 | François Barcelo | 2009 | |
| 4 | Doppia esposizione | , 1978 | Gaëtan Brulotte | 2008 | |
| 5 | L'amore di Narciso e altri racconti | Eneida Topi | 2010 | ||
| 6 | L'invenzione della morte | , 1991 | Hubert Aquin | 2010 | |
| 7 | Prossimo episodio | , 1965 | Hubert Aquin | 2011 | |
| 8 | Racconti cubisti | , 2011 | Prikedelik | 2011 | |
| 9 | Medio Occidente | , 2014 | Beppi Chiuppani | 2014 | |
| 10 | Golem XIV | , 1981 | Stanisław Lem | 2017 | |
| 11 | Cazzarola! Anarchia, Rom, Amore, Italia | , 2015 | Norman Nawrocki | 2018 |
Altriarabi (2008)
Series dedicated to the contemporary and unaligned voices of Arab world. 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 | Khaled Al Khamissi | 2008 | ||
| 2 | L'amore ai tempi del petrolio | Nawal al-Sa‘dawi | 2009 | ||
| 3 | Rogers e la Via del Drago divorato dal Sole | Ahmed Nàgi | 2010 | ||
| 4 | Metro | Magdy El Shafee | 2010 | ||
| 5 | La danza dello scorpione | Akram Musallam | 2011 | ||
| 6 | Amalgam | Maya Zankoul | 2011 | ||
| 7 | Amalgam 2 | Maya Zankoul | 2012 | ||
| 8 | Il matto di Piazza della Libertà | 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 | Nihad Sirees | 2014 | ||
| 12 | La città del piacere | Ezzat El Kamhawi | 2015 | ||
| 13 | Cani sciolti | Muhammad Aladdin | 2015 | ||
| 14 | E se fossi morto? | Mohammed Dibo | 2015 | ||
| 15 | Vita: istruzioni per l'uso | 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 into Italian.| Series | N. | Italian title | Original title and year | Author | Nationality | Year in Italy |
| Altriarabi migrante | 1 | Se ti chiami Mohammed | Jérôme Ruiller | 2015 | ||
| Altriarabi migrante | 2 | L'autistico e il piccione viaggiatore | Rodaan Al Galidi | 2016 | ||
| Altriarabi migrante | 3 | I miracoli | Abbas Khider | 2016 | ||
| Altriarabi migrante | 4 | Il ragazzo di Aleppo che ha dipinto la guerra | Sumia Sukkar | 2016 | ||
| Altriarabi migrante | 5 | La Mecca-Phuket | Saphia Azzeddine | 2016 | ||
| Altriarabi migrante | 6 | Un uomo non piange mai | Faïza Guène | 2017 | ||
| Altriarabi migrante | 7 | Le ballerine di Papicha | Kaouther Adimi | 2017 | ||
| Altriarabi migrante | 8 | Fuori da Gaza | 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 | , 2007 | Steve LeVine | 2009 | |
| 2 | Il labirinto di Putin. Spie, omicidi e il cuore nero della nuova 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 | Phaswane Mpe | 2011 | ||
| 2 | Le cinque stagioni dell’amore | João Almino | 2012 | ||
| 3 | NonnaDiciannove e il segreto del sovietico | Ondjaki | 2014 |
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».
- Creative Europe Literally Translation 2015: The Project «Altriarabi Migrante» consists of seven volumes. The selection includes works published between 2003–2014 by European Authors of Arab origin, born from 1971 to 1992, from France, United Kingdom, Germany and Netherlands. 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? by Mohammed Dibo, 2015.
- Librinfestival 2017 as «Best Book»: Il ragazzo di Aleppo che ha dipinto la guerra by Sumia Sukkar, 2016.