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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Paulo Coelho - Your stories are no. 1 in my heart :-)


Paulo Coelho


Thank you USA for your support, "The Alchemist" is breaking all records in The New York Times Bestseller List ( 177 weeks = 3 1/2 years)



Paulo Coelho



url
http://www.goodreads.com/paulocoelho

born
August 24, 1947 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

gender
male

website

genre

influences
Khalil Gibran Henry Miller Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Amado

member since
January 2008


about this author

The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist. In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage. In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist. Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time. Other titles include Brida (1990), The Valkyries (1992), By the river Piedra I sat Down and Wept (1994), the collection of his best columns published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo entitle Maktub (1994), the compilation of texts Phrases (1995), The Fifth Mountain (1996), Manual of a Warrior of Light (1997), Veronika decides to die (1998), The Devil and Miss Prym (2000), the compilation of traditional tales in Stories for parents, children and grandchildren (2001), Eleven Minutes (2003), The Zahir (2005), The Witch of Portobello (2006) and Winner Stands Alone (to be released in 2009). During the months of March, April, May and June 2006, Paulo Coelho traveled to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella in 1986. He also held surprise book signings - announced one day in advance - in some cities along the way, to have a chance to meet his readers. In ninety days of pilgrimage the author traveled around the globe and took the famous Transiberrian train that took him to Vladivostok. During this experience Paulo Coelho launched his blog Walking the Path - The Pilgrimage in order to share with his readers his impressions. Since this first blog Paulo Coelho has expanded his presence in the internet with his daily blogs in Wordpress, Myspace & Facebook. He is equally present in media sharing sites such as Youtube and Flickr, offering on a regular basis not only texts but also videos and pictures to his readers. From this intensive interest and use of the Internet sprang his bold new project: The Experimental Witch where he invites his readers to adapt to the screen his book The Witch of Portobello. Indeed Paulo Coelho is a firm believer of Internet as a new media and is the first Best-selling author to actively support online free distribution of his work. (less)

2 comments:

  1. Must be an enjoyable read The Fifth Mountain: A Novel by Paulo Coelho. loved the way you wrote it. I find your review very genuine and original, this book is going in by "to read" list.

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  2. I did not review it, but I have read so many of his books, that I am sure it is as brilliant as the rest are, this review I posted from Paulo's announcement and the review on goodreads.com, I am glad you enjoyed it, and please come back and comment on the book when you have finished reading it :-)

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