When Paulo Coelho's novel "The Alchemist" was first published in 1988, it went unnoticed. It sold only one copy the first week. Unperturbed, Coelho confidently waited for more sales to come in, but he ...

Paulo Coelho, Author, trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. HarperCollins $18.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-052797-6 This companion volume to Coelho's popular The Alchemist is an odd hybrid—a ...

The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho: Some books are less about the story itself and more about the way they stir something within us. This week, we will discuss ‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho. It is a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sony-based TriStar has stepped up to make a worldwide rights deal to turn the Paulo Coelho novel The Alchemist into a feature film. The book has been guided creatively for years by Cinema ...

In the spring of 1988, a meeting at the Argumento bookstore in the trendy Leblon neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, would help spark the global success of the best-known Brazilian writer of our ...

Sao Paulo – Kobe Bryant and Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho were working together on a children’s book, but the author of “The Alchemist” said he deleted the draft after Bryant’s death in a helicopter ...

If you watch paint-by-numbers biopic Paulo Coelho’s Best Story with no knowledge of who the elusive title character is, you will leave the film without understanding what made the celebrated author of ...