Paulo Coelho
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Paulo Coelho de Souza (born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist as well as a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Since then, Alchemist's book became a best-seller in the world, and he has sold 28 more books since.
Career
Coelho's first book, Hell Archives, was released in 1982, but it had no success. He contributed to the Practical Manual of Vampirism in 1986, but he later tried to keep it off the shelves because he regarded it as "of poor quality." Coelho wrote The Pilgrimage, which appeared in 1987, after returning from Santiago de Compostela in 1986.
"If I see a white feather today, it means that God is giving me that I will have to write a new book," Coelho said when trying to get over his writer's procrastination. He began writing that day after noticing one in the window of a store. Coelho wrote The Alchemist and released it the following year through a small Brazilian publishing house that did an initial print run of 900 copies but decided not to reprint it. He found a larger publishing house, and the Alchemist's next book Brida appeared, he was excited. In 1994, HarperCollins decided to publish the book. It became a worldwide bestseller later in the year. In a 2009 interview with the Syrian Forward Magazine, Coelho said that the Sufi family had influenced him, especially when writing The Alchemist and later The Zahir.
Coelho has averaged at least one novel every two years since the book's release of The Alchemist. Four of them, the Pilgrimage, Hippie, The Valkyries, and Aleph, are autobiographical, while the bulk of the rest are largely fictional. Other books, such as Maktub, The Warrior of Light, and Like the Flowing River, are collections of essays, newspaper columns, or selected teachings. His work has been distributed in more than 170 countries and translated into eighty-three languages. His books have sold 320 million copies worldwide. Coelho's name appeared on the list of the 200 most influential contemporary writers on December 22, 2016, and it was ranked number 2 by a UK-based firm Richtopia on the 22nd edition.
However, reactions to his writing have not been tense. Despite being raised in a Catholic family and identifying himself as a member of the faith even now, his position has been described as incompatible with the Catholic faith due to its New Age, pantheist, and relativist content. And despite his earnings, reports of Coelho's later work consistently emphasize its superficiality.
In 2016, basketball player Kobe Bryant called him to talk about a children's book project with him. They began writing the book together months before Bryant's death in a helicopter crash in January 2020, but they decided against publishing the whole text without him. He didn't mention how many pages had been written or if the book had a title.
In 2018, it was revealed that Coelho had signed for a TV series based on the characters of his novels The Devil and Miss Prym, Brida, and The Witch of Portobello.