"His books have had a life-enhancing impact on millions of people. The Times"
Paulo Coelho is one of the most beloved storytelling authors of our times. His books have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 67 languages.
The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist.
In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage.
In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist. Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time.
Other titles include Brida (1990), The Valkyries (1992), By the river Piedra I sat Down and Wept (1994), the collection of his best columns published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo entitle Maktub (1994), the compilation of texts Phrases (1995), The Fifth Mountain (1996), Manual of a Warrior of Light (1997), Veronika decides to die (1998), The Devil and Miss Prym (2000), the compilation of traditional tales in Stories for parents, children and grandchildren (2001), Eleven Minutes (2003), The Zahir (2005)
During the months of March, April, May and June 2006, Paulo Coelho traveled to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella in 1986. He also held surprise book signings - announced one day in advance - in some cities along the way, to have a chance to meet his readers. In ninety days of pilgrimage the author traveled around the globe and took the famous Transiberrian train that took him to Vladivostok. During this experience Paulo Coelho launched his blog Walking the Path - The Pilgrimage in order to share with his readers his impressions.
Since this first blog Paulo Coelho has expanded his presence in the internet with his daily blogs in Wordpress, Myspace & Facebook. He is equally present in media sharing sites such as Youtube and Flickr, offering on a regular basis not only texts but also videos and pictures to his readers.
From this intensive interest and use of the Internet sprang his bold new project: The Experimental Witch where he invites his readers to adapt to the screen his book The Witch of Portobello. You can still subscribe in this experiment!
Indeed Paulo Coelho is a firm believer of Internet as a new media and is the first Best-selling author to actively support online free distribution of his work.
Forget Radiohead. Brazilian author Paulo Coelho has been an apostle of free Internet distribution for years. He figures they sell more books this way.
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Paulo Coelho Reveals To Newsweek His Support Of Piracy
Paulo Coelho Turns Tables On Harper Collins On Matters Of Copyright
The best-selling author Paulo Coelho has managed to turn tables on his publishing house Harper Collins. Indeed, the New York Times released an article (here)
saying how Harper Collins is enabling the online reading of Coelho's book The Witch of Portobello in its website. The publishing house also announced it would be putting a Coelho book per month on it's website.
It seems that Harper Collins had no choice, since Coelho confessed in his speech during the DLD conference earlier this year, that many books (including Harper English versions) where in Pirate Coelho – a blog he created for free download : Http://piratecoelho.wordpress.com/
Thumbs up for Pirate Coelho!
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Dear readers,
You can now browse the full edition of The Witch of Portobello (courtesy of Harper Collins). Therefore, you can read the first pages (or the full edition). If you decide do buy the book, there is a link on the left side.
The Witch of Portobello ( complete and free! )
This link will be there till the 11 of March. On the next months, we are going to have full editions online of all my titles published in English.
The Pilgrimage By Paulo Coelho (Complete And Free!)
Dear readers,
You can now browse the full edition of The Pilgrimage (courtesy of Harper Collins). Therefore, you can read the first pages (or the full edition).
This link will be there till the 10th of April. On the next months, we are going to have full editions online of all my titles published in English.
Love,
Paulo
http://paulocoelhoblog.com/
I just launched yesterday a Free Texts section in my blog so that you may copy-paste any of my texts as long as you mention my name in your blogs, sites, etc. Please visit the following link: http://paulocoelhoblog.com/free-texts/
Love Paulo
Virtual Exhibition For 100 Million Copies
Dear readers,
I wish to make a virtual exhibition for the 100 Million Copies sold. And invite you to participate. The idea of this physical exhibition that I saw in Aviles (and was reproduced in Milan) is the following: A reader would pose for a picture holding his/her favorite book of mine.
For further details, go to Virtual Exhibition
Love Paulo
p.s. Comments are open. Old comments has been moved to the Virtual Exhibition page.
Join A Live Conversation On September 17, Co-hosted By Laurence Fishburne
Dear Readers,
Join a live conversation on September 17, co-hosted by Laurence Fishburne alchemistlive.comPaulo
"His books have had a life-enhancing impact on millions of people. The Times"
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