The Sial Pigmalión Publishing Group was founded in 1997 in Madrid by the writer, editor and professor Basilio Rodríguez Cañada, former president of the Spanish Association of Africanists and current president of the PEN Club of Spain, and José Ramón Trujillo, professor of the Autonomous University of Madrid.

[1][2][3] The group, comprised by the publishers Sial Ediciones and Pigmalión Edypro, works with "cultural communication, event organization, and the edition of works of narrative, poetry, essay, theater, literary criticism, university, cinema, and children's books" according to its website.

[9][10] Outside of Spain, the Sial Pigmalión Publishing Group has strong ties with Africa and Latin America,[11][12] with distribution in Colombia and authors from many countries in the two regions.

[13][14] Sial Pigmalión has carried out various cooperation, development and cultural dissemination projects in countries such as Equatorial Guinea, Morocco, Germany, Tunisia, Philippines, Colombia, Spain, etc.

[17] In 2018, the Sial Pigmalión Publishing Group received the "Gold Star" award from the Institute for Professional Excellence.