25 years of Sinnos, the publishing house founded in Rebibbia prison

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Books that leave a mark. Look for the "about us" page on the website. Sinnos publishing house ( "signs“, precisely) and this will be the answer you will find. A singular story and a unusual place to give life to a reality that creates books and words. When Sinnos takes his first steps we are in the 1990 and the unusual place is a prison. The Roman prison of Rebibbia.

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“From the very beginning, with the historic series The Globes, which made the first protagonists immigrants arrived in our country – we read on the website – through their life stories told in two languages ​​to Italian and foreign children who began to sit at the same school desks. Now those children have become adults, who work and study here. But fortunately, even today, the world is present in our classrooms, a wealth we could perhaps exploit better: many of these children and young people were born here, they are our citizens, and they too will be our future."

REBIBBIA PRISON PUBLISHING HOUSE –

Over the years, other series have been added to the Mappamondi, such as Nomos, inaugurated by Lorenzo and the Constitution, to explain and describe charters, statutes, and regulations. Authors and illustrators with Sinnos have been telling stories for 25 years. stories, fairy tales, legendsAbove all, they face each other social issues. From an idea by Antonio Spinelli, with a group of detainees and with volunteers who supported them in setting up a cooperative, for 25 years Sinnos has been contributing to to build thought, imagination, as well as dialogue and coexistence between different cultures. Thus the Sinnos series tackles themes such as women's rights commitment against the mafia, generational conflicts, attention to diversity in all its forms.

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The soul of Sinnos is also told in the motivation for the Andersen Prize, won in 2007: «For a rich, complex and ethically courageous editorial project, capable of giving voice to the world's literatures by building a bilingual catalogue for interculturality and of dealing with topical issues with restraint: from the Constitution to reading difficulties, to the Mafia. Fifteen years later, we can only continue to agree.

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