Editrice il Sirente is an Italian

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with specialisms in

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and

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, 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

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. In his long catalog provides many

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authors such as

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, François Barcelo, Norman Nawrocki, Gaëtan Brulotte and

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Giovanni Conso Giovanni Battista Conso (23 March 1922 – 2 August 2015) was an Italian jurist who served on the Constitutional Court of Italy for nine years beginning in 1982, and has served as President of the Accademia dei Lincei from 1989 until his death ...

Piero Fassino Piero Franco Rodolfo Fassino (born 7 October 1949) is an Italian politician with the Democratic Party. He was Mayor of Turin from 2011 until 2016 and is a former national secretary of the Democrats of the Left party.

, Flavia Lattanzi, Umberto Leanza, Antonio Marchesi, Danilo Zolo, and Paolo Benvenuti. Among others, more recently, some

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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 Ndalu de Almeida (born July 5,1977) is a writer born in Angola who uses the pen name Ondjaki. He has written poetry, children's books, short stories, novels, drama and film scripts. Career Ondjaki studied sociology at the University of Lisbon, ...

: * 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 Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko (born 1941) is a Ugandan judge and legal scholar. He was a member of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2008 to 2012, and currently serves as a judge on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. ...

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.

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 (

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, and the UK) into

Inchieste (2009)

Series dedicated to news reports.

Nuovi percorsi (2011)

Series devoted to topical subjects, published under license

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and available in version

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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». * 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 (1°-2° generation), born from 1971 to 1992, from

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and

(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

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External links

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