Why? Because it was me in there, all of me, heart and soul. But I never lost faith in the book or ever wavered in my vision. They wiped their hands of the project and let me take the book with me.
My original publisher decided to cut me loose and cancelled our contract. It took another six months for the bookseller to unload a second copy-and that was to the same person who bought the first! And who knows how long it took to sell the third.īy the end of the year, it was clear to everyone that The Alchemist wasn’t working. When the book was first published twenty-five years ago in my native Brazil, no one noticed.Ī bookseller in the northeast corner of the country told me that only one person purchased a copy the first week of its release.
Other titles include “The Pilgrimage”, “Brida”, "The Supreme Gift", “The Valkyries”, “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept”, “Maktub”, “The Fifth Mountain”, “Manual of the Warrior of Light”, “Veronika Decides to Die”, “The Devil and Miss Prym”, “Stories for Parents, Children and Grandchildren”, “Eleven Minutes”, “The Zahir”, “Like the Flowing River”, “The Witch of Portobello”, “The Winner Stands Alone”, “Aleph”, “Manuscript Found in Accra”, “Adultery”, “The Spy”, “Hippie”. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and the recipient of over 115 awards and honours, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Grinzane Cavour Book Award and the Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur, to name a few.
Paulo Coelho has been a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 2007 and this has allowed him to continue to promote intercultural dialogue and to focus on the needs of children. Being the author of 30 books that have sold over 320 million copies in 170 countries, he has become one of the most widely read authors in the world today. About The Author Paulo Coelho is the author of "The Alchemist", he was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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