| Parent: | Independent |
| Status: | Active |
| Keypeople: | Simone Benvenuti |
| Country: |  Italy |
| Headquarters: | Fagnano Alto |
| Distribution: | Worldwide |
| Publications: | Books |
| Imprints: | 58 |
| Numemployees: | 3 |
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.
Series devoted to essays on international law.
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 | 2007 | |||
| 2 | Pensieri dal carcere | (Quelques messages personnels), 2001 | 2007 | |||
| 3 | Agénor, Agénor, Agénor e Agénor | (Agénor, Agénor, Agénor et Agénor), 1981 | François Barcelo | 2009 | ||
| 4 | Doppia esposizione | (L'emprise), 1978 | 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 | 2010 | |||
| 7 | Prossimo episodio | (Prochain épisode), 1965 | 2011 | |||
| 8 | Racconti cubisti | (Racconti cubisti), 2011 | Prikedelik | 2011 | ||
| 9 | Medio Occidente | (Medio Occidente), 2014 | Beppi Chiuppani | 2014 | ||
| 10 | Golem XIV | (Golem XIV), 1981 | 2017 | |||
| 11 | Cazzarola! Anarchia, Rom, Amore, Italia | (Cazzarola! Anarchy, Romani, Love, Italy), 2015 | 2018 |
Series dedicated to the contemporary and unaligned voices of Arab world.[1] The first issue comes out on September 13, 2008.
| N. | Italian title | Original title and year | Author | Nationality | Year in Italy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (Taxi. Hawadit al-mashawir, 2006) | 2008 | ||||
| 2 | L'amore ai tempi del petrolio | (Al-Hubb Fi Zaman Al-Naft: Riwayah, 2001) | 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) | 2011 | |||
| 7 | Amalgam 2 | (Amalgam Vol. 2, 2010) | 2012 | |||
| 8 | Il matto di Piazza della Libertà | (Majnun sahat al-hurriyya, 2009) | 2012 | |||
| 9 | Qui finisce la terra | 2012 | ||||
| 10 | L’autunno qui, è magico e immenso | 2013 | ||||
| 11 | Il silenzio e il tumulto | (As-Samt wa-s-sakhab, 2004) | 2014 | |||
| 12 | La città del piacere | (Madīnat al-ladhdha, 1997) | 2015 | |||
| 13 | Cani sciolti | (Kalb balady mudarrab, 2014) | 2015 | |||
| 14 | E se fossi morto? | (Kaman Yushaid mawtihi, 2012) | 2015 | |||
| 15 | Vita: istruzioni per l'uso | (Istikhdam al-Hayat, 2014) | 2016 |
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) | 2015 | |||
| Altriarabi migrante | 2 | L'autistico e il piccione viaggiatore | (De autist en de postduif, 2009) | 2016 | |||
| Altriarabi migrante | 3 | I miracoli | (Der falsche Inder, 2008) | 2016 | |||
| Altriarabi migrante | 4 | Il ragazzo di Aleppo che ha dipinto la guerra | (The boy from Aleppo, 2013) | 2016 | |||
| Altriarabi migrante | 5 | La Mecca-Phuket | (La Mecque-Phuket, 2010) | 2016 | |||
| Altriarabi migrante | 6 | Un uomo non piange mai | (Un homme, ça ne pleure pas, 2014) | 2017 | |||
| Altriarabi migrante | 7 | Le ballerine di Papicha | (L’envers des autres, 2010) | 2017 | |||
| Altriarabi migrante | 8 | Fuori da Gaza | (Out Of It, 2011) | 2017 |
Series dedicated to news reports.
| N. | Italian title | Original title and year | Author | Nationality | Year in Italy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Il petrolio e la gloria | 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 | 2009 | ||
| 2 | Il labirinto di Putin | 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 | 2010 | ||
| 3 | Ucraina terra di confine | Ucraina terra di confine. Viaggio nell'Europa sconosciuta | 2012 | |||
| 4 | Riga magica | Riga magica. Cronache dal Baltico | 2015 | |||
| 5 | Fùcino. Acqua, terra, infanzia | 2018 |
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 | 2011 | |||
| 2 | Speranze e paure nel futuro delle rivolte arabe | 2014 | |||
| 3 | Quando studiavamo in America | 2016 | |||
| 4 | La terza cultura e la mutazione letale | 2016 |
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.[2]
| N. | Italian title | Original title and year | Author | Nationality | Year in Italy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Benvenuti a Hillbrow | (Welcome to Our Hillbrow, 2001) | 2011 | |||
| 2 | Le cinque stagioni dell’amore | (As Cinco Estações do Amor, 2001) | 2012 | |||
| 3 | NonnaDiciannove e il segreto del sovietico | (AvóDezanove e o Segredo do Soviético, 2008) | 2014 |
This article was based substantially on its counterpart in the Italian Wikipedia, il Sirente.
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