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.

Famous writer who is very timid and hates to speak in public

1. 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.
2. Coelho has more followers on various social media sites in comparison to Madonna.
3. Paulo Coelho was the first author on planet to make his books available for free over the internet.