All in all, Coelho has sold over million books, which have been translated into about 60 languages. From Pinochet to Clinton, Putin to Madonna, celebs and political figures all over the world have sworn their allegiance to the Coelho fan base.
The story is simple: an Andalusian shepherd boy follows his prophetic dream and sets out on a journey to find a treasure in faraway Egypt. It was — and still is — the biggest-selling book ever published in Portuguese. The speech continues in the same vein, again returning to the themes that run through his books — dreams, purpose, love — and relying heavily on the coelhian anecdote.
To summarize the words of a man of many quotable words, all that matters to lead a successful, happy life is positive thinking. Not circumstance, not divine intervention, not any intrinsic factors — all that matters is positive thinking, Coelho assures his philosophy-hungry viewers.
We and our partners use cookies to better understand your needs, improve performance and provide you with personalised content and advertisements. To allow us to provide a better and more tailored experience please click "OK". He has garnered most of his earnings from his career as a songwriter and a writer. As a songwriter, he has created lyrics for popular artists like Rita Lee and Raul Seixas. His work has been greatly successful and has been published in upwards of countries. Paul Coelho has been a great songwriter, and his list of awards, achievements, and records prove just how good he is.
What often gets overlooked among his achievements is the kind of heart he has. In he founded the Paulo Coelho Institute, whose mission is to provide support to the children and the elderly people. With that being said, we wish him the best of luck for all his future endeavors and hope he continues entertaining and inspiring us like he always has.
In , Coelho walked the plus mile Road of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, a turning point in his life. On the path, Coelho had a spiritual awakening, which he described autobiographically in The Pilgrimage.
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. In , he founded the Paulo Coelho Institute, which provides support to children and the elderly. Coelho posts up to three times a week at his blog, and has millions of fans on both Facebook and Twitter.
He discussed his relationship with readers through social media platforms with The Wall Street Journal in August Another development came in November , when he finished uploading around 80, documents-manuscripts, diaries, photos, reader letters, press clippings-and created a virtual Paulo Coelho Foundation, together with the physical foundation which is based in Geneva.
In , Coelho published his first book, Hell Archives, which failed to make a substantial impact. In 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. The walk and the spiritual awakening he experienced en route inspired him to write The Pilgrimage , an autobiographical account of the trek, in his native Portuguese.
He quit his other jobs and devoted himself full-time to the craft of writing. In , Coelho wrote a new book, The Alchemist , over the course of one two-week spurt of creativity. The allegorical novel was about an Andalusian shepherd boy who follows a mystical trek in which he learns to speak the "Language of the World" and thus receives his heart's desire. The book attracted little attention at first, until a French-language translation suddenly leapt onto bestseller lists in France in the early s.
New translations followed, and soon The Alchemist became a worldwide phenomenon. The book has sold, by Coelho's count, roughly 35 million copies, and is now the most translated book in the world by any living author.
Since the publication of The Alchemist , Coelho has produced a new book at a rate of about one every two years. In a somewhat unusual scheduling ritual, he allows himself to begin the writing process for a new book only after he has found a white feather in the January of an odd year. As odd as that may sound, it seems to be working. His 26 books have sold more than 65 million copies in at least 59 languages.
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