| Parent company | Independent |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Founded | 1998 (1998) |
| Founder | Enrico Monier |
| Country of origin |  Italy |
| Headquarters location | Ripa di Fagnano Alto |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Publication types | Books |
| Imprints | 70 |
| No. of employees | 6 |
| Official website | sirente |
Editrice il Sirente is an Italian book publisher with specialisms in Arabic fiction and comics, investigation, actuality and international law. .
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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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 | Norman Nawrocki |  Canada |
2007 |
| 2 | Pensieri dal carcere | (Quelques messages personnels), 2001 | Pierre Clémenti |  France |
2007 |
| 3 | Agénor, Agénor, Agénor e Agénor | (Agénor, Agénor, Agénor et Agénor), 1981 | François Barcelo | Canada |
2009 |
| 4 | Doppia esposizione | (L'emprise), 1978 | Gaëtan Brulotte | Canada |
2008 |
| 5 | L'amore di Narciso e altri racconti | (L’amore di Narciso e altri racconti, 2010) | Eneida Topi |  Albania |
2010 |
| 6 | L'invenzione della morte | (L'invention de la mort), 1991 | Hubert Aquin | Canada |
2010 |
| 7 | Prossimo episodio | (Prochain épisode), 1965 | Hubert Aquin | Canada |
2011 |
| 8 | Racconti cubisti | (Racconti cubisti), 2011 | Prikedelik | Italy |
2011 |
| 9 | Medio Occidente | (Medio Occidente), 2014 | Beppi Chiuppani | Italy |
2014 |
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. Le strade del Cairo si raccontano | (Taxi. Hawadit al-mashawir, 2006) | Khaled Al Khamissi | Egypt |
2008 |
| 2 | L'amore ai tempi del petrolio | (Al-Hubb Fi Zaman Al-Naft: Riwayah, 2001) | Nawal al-Sa‘dawi | Egypt |
2009 |
| 3 | Rogers e la Via del Drago divorato dal Sole | (Rogers, 2007) | Ahmed Nàgi | Egypt |
2010 |
| 4 | Metro | (Metro, 2008) | Magdy El Shafee | Egypt |
2010 |
| 5 | La danza dello scorpione | (Sîrat al-'aqrab alladhî yatasabbabu 'araqan, 2008) | Akram Musallam |  Palestine |
2011 |
| 6 | Amalgam | (Amalgam, 2009) | Maya Zankoul | Lebanon |
2011 |
| 7 | Amalgam 2 | (Amalgam Vol. 2, 2010) | Maya Zankoul | Lebanon |
2012 |
| 8 | Il folle di Piazza della Libertà | (Majnun sahat al-hurriyya, 2009) | Hassan Blasim | Iraq |
2012 |
| 9 | Qui finisce la terra | Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud, Raja' Bakriyyah, Ala Hlehel, Akram Musallam, Hisham Naffa', Bashir Shalash, Muhammad Ali Taha | Palestine |
2012 | |
| 10 | L’autunno qui, è magico e immenso | Golan haji |  Syria |
2013 | |
| 11 | Il silenzio e il tumulto | (As-Samt wa-s-sakhab, 2004) | Nihad Sirees | Syria |
2014 |
| 12 | La città del piacere | (Madīnat al-ladhdha, 1997) | Ezzat El Kamhawi | Egypt |
2015 |
In 2015 born the sub-series Migrante dedicated to the arabic second and third generation of writers in Europe.
| N. | Italian title | Original title and year | Author | Nationality | Year in Italy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chiamarsi Mohammed | (Les Mohammed, 2011) | Jerome Ruiller | France |
2015 |
Series dedicated to news reports.
| N. | Italian title | Original title and year | Author | Nationality | Year in Italy |
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| 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 | USA |
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 | USA |
2010 |
| 3 | Ucraina terra di confine | Massimiliano Di Pasquale | Italy |
2012 |
Series devoted to topical subjects, published under license Creative Commons and available in version eBook on the web.
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]
On December 4th, 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
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