10 Facts about Paulo Coelho, the best-selling Brazilian writer in the world

Paulo Coelho (actually Paulo Coelho de Souza) has sold more than 210 million books. His works have been translated into over 70 languages ​​and are sold in over 150 countries. However, not everything was a success in the career of the Brazilian writer who sells the most books in the world. Once, for example, a book was so bad that copies had to be collected.

O awesome.club selected 10 curiosities of the writer’s career and life.

Paulo Coelho’s father was an engineer, a profession that the family wanted him to follow. As a teenager, when he said he wanted to be a writer and after repeating his year at school twice in a row, his parents committed him to a mental institution. The writer fled the scene 3 times.

Before establishing himself as a writer, he worked as a theater director and author, in addition to working in journalism. As a composer, his most famous works are with Raul Seixashowever, also wrote lyrics for Elis Regina (the version of You makes me crazy🇧🇷 and Rita Lee – the success This Roque Enrow guy🇧🇷

Paulo Coelho has been a member of the Academia Brasileiras de Letras since 2002, occupying chair number 21. In his inauguration, he used an excerpt from the Bible and said “The glory of the world is transitory”.

As a hippie, he traveled the world and had many spiritual experiences, including knowing and participating in secret societies and eastern religions.

The now famous writer also collects some failures. In 1982, he edited his first book “Arquivos do Inferno”, which did not sell at all. In 1985, he participated in the book “The Practical Handbook of Vampirism”. According to him, the book was very bad and he had the copies collected.

A year later, in 1986, luck began to smile on the writer. He made the pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago, in Spain, and soon after he wrote “O Diário de um Mago — O Peregrino”, published in 1987. He then published “The Alchemist”, to this day the greatest bestseller in history. Brazilian.

Paulo Coelho entered the “Guinness Book of Records” as the author who most signed books in different editions at a literary fair, in Frankfurt, in 2003.

Despite all the mystique surrounding the color, the truth is that he likes black for practical reasons. Black clothes are more stylish and less likely to be damaged in hotel laundry facilities.

The “Wizard”, as the writer is also known, says he can concentrate by practicing archery and archery.

The sales success of his books was not repeated on the big screen. “Don’t Stop on the Pista — The Best Story by Paulo Coelho” was a box office failure.

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