1 min readSep 26, 2019
What difficulties did he go through until he became a famous writer
Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and attended a Jesuit school. Coelho wrote The Pilgrimage, published in 1987. The following year, Coelho wrote The Alchemist and published it through a small Brazilian publishing house that made an initial print run of 900 copies and decided not to reprint it. Later it became an international bestseller.
- Paulo Coelho’s parents, worried that he wanted to become a writer and an artist, put their son in an insane asylum three times before the age of 20.
- Coelho has more followers on various social media sites in comparison to Madonna.
- Paulo Coelho was the first author on planet to make his books available for free over the internet.