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Paulo Coelho de Souza ( ,J C Wells (2008) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Pearson Education Limited. ; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His 1988 novel The Alchemist became an international best-seller.
On his parents' wishes, Coelho enrolled in law school and abandoned his dream of becoming a writer. One year later, he dropped out and lived life as a hippie, travelling through South America, North Africa, Mexico, and Europe and started using drug culture in the 1960s. An interview with Brazilian writer, Paulo Coelho: Everybody is a Magus Life Positive. July 2000. Life and Letters: The Magus The New Yorker. 7 May 2007.
In 1986 Coelho walked the 500-plus mile Road of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. Teacher's Guide to The Alchemist Harper Collins Publisher. On the path, he had a spiritual awakening, which he described autobiographically in The Pilgrimage.Reiss, Valerie Paulo Coelho Dances with Angels Beliefnet. In an interview, Coelho stated "In, I was very happy in the things I was doing. I was doing something that gave me food and water – to use the metaphor in The Alchemist, I was working, I had a person whom I loved, I had money, but I was not fulfilling my dream. My dream was, and still is, to be a writer." Interview with Paulo Coelho BBC World Service Book Club. December 2004. Coelho would leave his lucrative career as a songwriter and pursue writing full-time.
While trying to overcome his procrastination about launching his writing career, Coelho decided, "If I see a white feather today, that is a sign that God is giving me that I have to write a new book." Seeing one in the window of a shop, he began writing that day. The following year, Coelho wrote The Alchemist and published it through a small Brazilian publishing house that made an initial print run of 900 copies and decided not to reprint it. A Brief History of the Book Saint Jordi Asociados He subsequently found a bigger publishing house, and with the publication of his next book Brida, The Alchemist took off. HarperCollins decided to publish the book in 1994. Later it became an international bestseller. In a 2009 interview with the Syrian Forward Magazine, Coelho stated that the Sufism tradition had been an influence on him, particularly when writing The Alchemist and later The Zahir.
Since the publication of The Alchemist, Coelho has generally written at least one novel every two years. Four of them – The Pilgrimage, Hippie, The Valkyries and Aleph – are autobiographical, while the majority of the rest are broadly fictional. Other books, like Maktub, The Manual of the Warrior of Light and Like the Flowing River, are collections of essays, newspaper columns, or selected teachings. His work has been published in more than 170 countries and translated into eighty-three languages. Together, his books have sold 320 million copies.Karen Heller, Meet the writers who still sell millions of books. Actually, hundreds of millions, The Washington Post
On 22 December 2016, Coelho was listed by UK-based company Richtopia at number 2 in the list of 200 most influential contemporary authors.
In 2016, he was contacted by basketball player Kobe Bryant, who wanted to discuss a children's book project with him. Some months before Bryant's death in a helicopter crash in January 2020, they started to write the book together, but upon hearing about his death, Coelho deleted the draft, saying in an interview that "it didn't make any sense to publish without him." He did not say how many pages had been written or whether the book had a title. Co-Author of Kobe Bryant Children's Book Deletes Unfinished Draft
Writing
In 1982, Coelho published his first book, Hell Archives, which failed to make a substantial impact. In 1986 he contributed to the Practical Manual of Vampirism, although he later tried to take it off the shelves since he considered it "of bad quality." After making the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in 1986, Coelho wrote The Pilgrimage, published in 1987.
Reception
Reactions to his writing have not been without Dissent. Though he was raised in a Catholicism family and describes himself as of that faith even now, his stance has been described as incompatible with the Catholic faith, because of its New Age, Pantheism and relativist contents. And whatever his sales, reviews of Coelho's later work consistently note its superficiality. "Adam Mars-Jones finds Paulo Coelho hurtling towards stupidity as he reaches for wisdom in The Zahir", The Observer, 19 June 2005Rebecca K. Morrison, "New novels fails to stimulate", The Independent, 14 September 2014Cameron Woodhead, "Paulo Coelho's fictional take on Mata Hari misses the mark", The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 January 2017
Film
The Pilgrim – Story of Paulo Coelho is the international title for the biographical film Não Pare na Pista, a co-production between Brazil’s Drama Films and the Spanish Babel Films, in which the younger and older Coelho are played by two different actors. One of the producers, Iôna de Macêdo, told Screen International: "The film tells the story of a man who has a dream. It's a little like Alice in Wonderland – he's someone who is too big for his house." The film, shot in Portuguese, had its premiere in Brazilian theatres in 2014 and was internationally distributed in 2015.
Personal life
Coelho married artist Christina Oiticica in 1980. Together they had previously spent half the year in Rio de Janeiro and the other half in a French country house in the Pyrenees, but now the couple resides permanently in Geneva, Switzerland.
Bibliography
1974 Teatro da Educação Theater For Education 1982 Arquivos do Inferno Hell Archives 1987 O Diário de um Mago The Pilgrimage 1988 O Alquimista The Alchemist 1990 Brida Brida 1991 O Dom Supremo The Supreme Gift 1992 As Valkírias The Valkyries 1994 Maktub Maktub Na Margem do Rio Piedra eu Sentei e Chorei By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept 1996 O Monte Cinco The Fifth Mountain 1997 Cartas de Amor de um Profeta Love Letters from a Prophet Manual do Guerreiro da Luz Manual of the Warrior of Light 1998 Veronika Decide Morrer Veronika Decides to Die Palavras Essenciais Essential Words 2000 O Demônio e a Srta. Prym The Devil and Miss Prym 2001 Historias para Pais, Filhos e Netos Fathers, Sons and Grandsons 2003 Onze Minutos Eleven Minutes 2004 O Gênio e as Rosas The Genie and the Roses Viagens Journeys Vida Life 2005 O Zahir The Zahir Caminhos Recolhidos Revived Paths 2006 Ser Como o Rio que Flui Like the Flowing River A Bruxa de Portobello The Witch of Portobello 2008 O Vencedor Está Só The Winner Stands Alone 2009 Amor Love 2010 Aleph Aleph 2011 Fábulas 2012 Manuscrito Encontrado em Accra Manuscript Found in Accra 2014 Adultério Adultery 2016 A Espiã The Spy 2018 Hippie Hippie 2020 O Caminho do Arco The Archer
External links
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