My Scratch Paper: Paulo Coelho

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho is my favorite author. He is just amazing. His books are filled with messages of hope, love, courage, etc. I just love reading his books and his blog.

Since he is my favorite author i thought i should know more things about him aside from the fact that he is a widely known author. From my research i found out that he's from Brazil. haha yeah, i never knew he came from there. Now i know why most of his book are set there. Before he dedicated his life to writing, he worked in theaters as a director and actor. He was also a journalist and lyricist. His first book was Hell Archives which made no impact at all. His second book was the world famous The Alchemist. However it had slow initial sales that his publisher told him to let go of it. (good thing Paulo Coelho didn't) He went on and now it is one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time. Today, he has sold 100 million copies (woah, he must be super rich right now!) He was the most sold author in 2003 with his book Eleven Minutes (at that time it wasn't even released in the UN, Japan and 10 other countries yet). The Alchemist was in 6th place in 2003. Eleven minutes topped the list in the whole world except in England. The Zahir was in 3rd place best sellers next to Dan Brown's The Da Vince Code and Angels and Demons. His most sold book is The alchemist. It has sold 30 million copies so far. He entered the Guinness Book of Records as the author who signed more books in different editions. Pope John Paul II welcomed him in Vatican.

That's everything i know about him. You can visit his blog at http://paulocoelhoblog.com/ There are a lot of nice stories there. You can also know more about him by going to this site : http://www.paulocoelho.com.br/engl/bio.shtml

omg! Witch of Portobello is available in his blog for free!!! yey! also The Valkyries.

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