Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho is a talented author who probably doesn't need to be represented. Brazilian writer, laureate of international literary awards. A unique person, whose name is noted in the Guinness Book of Records and in the list of holders of the French Order of the Legion of Honor - this is just an incomplete list of facts surrounding the personality of this talent.

The future writer was born in Rio de Janeiro on August 24, 1947. The Coelho family was wealthy enough. The Catholic school, which the boy attended, considered the main task to instill in children a spirit of competition and a thirst for superiority over others. At the same time, much attention was paid to the development of individual talents and characteristics of students.

As a result of such specific training, a categorical rejection of the traditional path in life has forever rooted in the soul of a teenager. Paulo wanted to write books, develop his literary talent and explore the world. Parents, considering such thoughts a sign of insanity, placed Coelho in a psychiatric hospital. For three agonizing years, the future writer was locked up in a hospital. Three times Paulo escaped from the supervision of doctors, and three times the teenager was returned back. Coelho's official diagnosis was schizophrenia.

Paulo's parents achieved what they wanted: the son abandoned the intention to write books and entered law school. But the rebellious spirit and intolerance to the imposed from the outside took their toll. A year later, in the early 1960s, Coelho decides to build his own life himself. Having dropped out of school, the young man joins the numerous at that time ranks of the hippie movement and goes to wander. At that time, the future writer traveled to all the countries of South America, and also visited Europe and North America. It was a period of complete freedom, vagrancy and even drugs.

A few years later, Paulo Coelho returned to his homeland, but did not continue his studies. Coelho made a living by writing lyrics for popular artists of the time. These were mainly rock stars performing highly social songs. In total, more than a hundred songs were born from Coelho's pen. At the same time, Coelho finds new interest for himself. The young man is keenly interested in mysticism and occultism, which are imbued with the ideas of Aleister Crowley, a man who considered himself a black magician.

Among other things, Coelho moonlighted as a journalist, theater director and even played a couple of roles in the theater. In his free time, Paulo devoted himself to communicating with his anarchist friends who founded an anti-government cell. The military authorities who ruled the country at that time drew attention to such a peculiar person. In 1974, Coelho was severely charged with anti-government actions. This is how the writer goes to jail. There is information that Paulo was tortured in the cell.

Coelho saved, oddly enough, the fact that as a teenager he was undergoing treatment for schizophrenia. Old medical certificates allowed Coelho to be declared insane. The writer is released again.

The biography of Paulo Coelho changed in an instant: the writer met a man who was a member of the Catholic order of monks and studied the mysteries of the Gospel. This man became a spiritual mentor for Coelho. Under the influence of a new acquaintance, Coelho makes a pilgrimage to the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela, where the tomb of the Catholic Saint James is located. According to the writer, an epiphany came to him there. Paulo realized that his purpose was not songwriting at all. He has to become a writer.

It is difficult to say what caused this decision: either higher forces intervened, or Coelho was simply tired of wasting talent on insignificant things. However, the fact remains: Coelho began writing books, fulfilling an old childhood dream. The first work was based on the writer's own pilgrimage, the impressions of which were still fresh. The book was titled The Diary of a Magician and was also published as The Pilgrimage. The Diary of a Magician was first published in 1987. The book did not bring the writer such fame as "The Alchemist", but increased the interest of pilgrims and tourists to the places described in the work.

A year later, in 1988, the first edition of The Alchemist was published, a book that later became a cult book and is still discussed by lovers of world literature. However, initially, the story did not arouse the slightest interest among the public. Only a few hundred copies of the publication were sold out. And only the re-publication of the novel, which took place in 1994 in the United States, brought the work and, of course, Coelho world fame. The Alchemist became a bestseller in a matter of days, and the author finally got what he had been striving for since childhood - he became a real writer.

The next book was Brida. Further, the books of Paulo Coelho were published every two years. Many of them won the love of the author's fans and just people who cannot imagine life without a book. However, the success of "Alchemist" has not yet been replicated. Among the most famous and popular works of the writer, we note "Veronica decides to die", "Eleven minutes", "The fifth mountain", "The winner remains alone", "Zaire", "Maktub". Coelho's three books are autobiographical: The Valkyries, The Pilgrimage, and Aleph.

The novels were sold in more than 170 countries, quotes by Paulo Coelho were passed from mouth to mouth and became no less beloved than the works themselves. The book "Warrior of Light" has become a tabletop for those who have embarked on the path of self-improvement. Films based on the books of Paulo Coelho also begin to appear. Each new work of the author causes a storm of delight among fans, but critics of Paulo's books are not so positive. Some of them even write devastating articles that demean both the style and the content of the works. However, the opinion of critics is unlikely to diminish the sincere love of the fans.

Paulo Coelho's personal life has always been eventful. Already in adolescence, Paulo attracted the attention of girls. The first wife, Vera Richteron, was born in Yugoslav Belgrade. The woman was 11 years older than Paulo. Perhaps this particular fact became decisive: the relationship did not last long.

When Coelho was 25, he met Adalgiza Eliana Rios de Magalhaes. The brightness and beauty of the girl could only compete with her name, and the future writer could not resist the attractiveness of Zhiza. This marriage came at a time when Paulo wandered around the world with hippies, used soft drugs and believed that life would always be so cloudless. However, such a relationship soon exhausted itself.

The next wife of the great writer was Cecil Mac Dowell. At the time of the marriage with Coelho, the girl was 19 years old. The family life of Paulo and Cecil lasted three years.

Now Paulo Coelho is happy in his fourth marriage. The wife of the writer was Christina Oytisika, whom the writer met in the early 1980s. Perhaps the secret of such a strong relationship is that it was Christina who made Coelho believe in herself.

The woman supported her lover in all his endeavors and even helped arrange that journey during which the writer met a spiritual mentor.

The writer continues to write novels and parables. The last books published were "Adultery", "Love. Selected Sayings ”and“ Mata Hari. Spy ". The name Coelho can even be found on the pages of the Guinness Book of Records, where he was noted as the author of the most translated lifetime work in the world (we are talking, of course, about "The Alchemist").

Coelho also has interests in addition to writing: in his native Brazil, the author created an organization that helps people defend their own rights and interests. The defense of rights, the writer is convinced, is the basis of a happy life and fruitful creative self-expression. The author also participates in the preparation for the filming of the film based on the book "Alchemist". The role of Santiago, the main character of the work, is rumored to be given to Idris Elba. It was directed by Laurence Fishburne.

Journalists often call the writer “a man of a new era” for his intelligence and, at the same time, inner emancipation. Perhaps we must pay tribute to the strength of Paulo's character: after going through a mental hospital and prison, Coelho did not leave his childhood dream. And this dream gave the admirers of the author's talent hours of happiness spent reading the books of their favorite writer.

"Pilgrimage" or "Diary of a Magician", 1987 "Alchemist", 1988 "Brida", 1990 "Valkyries", 1992 "Maktub", 1994 "I sat down by the Rio Piedra River and cried ...", 1994 "Fifth Mountain", 1996 "Book of the Warrior of Light", 1997 "Love Letters of the Prophet", 1997 "Veronica Decides to Die", 1998 "The Devil and Senorita Prim", 2000 "Fathers, Sons and Grandfathers", 2001 "Eleven Minutes", 2003 "Zaire", 2005 " The Witch of Portobello ", 2007" The winner remains alone ", 2008" Aleph ", 2011" The manuscript found in Acre ", 2012" Like a river ", 2006" Adultery ", 2014

If you were discharged from an insane asylum, this does not mean that you have been cured. You just became like everyone else ("Veronica decides to die") When you really want something, the whole Universe will help to make your wish come true ("Alchemist") When one day is like another, people stop noticing the good things that happen to them every day after sunrise ("Alchemist") All women are sure that a man does not need anything but these eleven minutes of pure sex, and for them he pays a lot of money. But this is not so: a man, in essence, is no different from a woman: he also needs to meet someone and find the meaning of life ("Eleven Minutes") Sometimes you need to die to start living ("Veronica decides to die")

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