Paulo Coelho de
Souza (August 24, 1947, Rio de Janeiro) is a novelist, playwright and lyricist
Brazilian.
It is one of the most widely read in the world with over 140 million books sold
in over 150 countries, translated into 73 languages. Has received outstanding
international awards
Write a weekly
newspaper column published in media around the world. He reached his greatest
success book The Alchemist. Paulo is married Brazilian painter Christina
Oiticica.
At age seven he used to read all kinds of books
He used to be rebellious because his parents wanted
him to be an engineer knowing he
wanted to be a
writer. So he used family and disobey the
rules because "sexual
problems, immaturity, rebellion, inability
to adapt to society, irritability and radical and extremist attitudes", is admitted
to a psychiatric hospital,
where he was subjected to several rounds of electroshock and at 17 he used to interact
with a theater group because.
In 1972, Paulo used
to be part of the Alternative
Society, an organization that
opposes capitalist ideologies, defends
the freedom to do what you want and used to practice black magic.
Paulo used to study the symbolic language of Christianity.
This is a bit of
a character I admire that even though his
parents thought he was crazy and put him to a psychiatric facility he followed his dream of being a writer and is now a famous writer with great success in the world and like many
people I read his books.
I recommend you read his books are great.
