Biography
On August 24, 1947, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Paulo Coelho de Souza was brought to this world. He went to school school, and when he was a teenager, he knew that he wanted to be a writer. His parents are not happy with his wishes, and they think that he opposes to follow the traditional path means that he must be included in a mental institution.
Coelho was there since he was 17 years old, and before they released him at the age of 20, he managed to escape three times. Coelho’s parents were tight about religion and faith, and they raised him to become a good Catholic. Coelho said: “Not because they want to hurt me, but they don’t know what to do … they don’t do that to destroy me, they do that to save me.”
To please his parents, he registered at a law school, but after only one year of study, he came out. After that, he spent his days traveling through South America, Mexico, North Africa and Europe. In the 1960s he began to abuse drugs. When traveling around the world ended, Coelho began to arrange lyrics for artists such as Elis Regina, Raul Seixas, and Rita Lee. Some of the lyrics are considered dangerous, and are associated with occultism, which caused its arrest and torture by the ruling military government. Before he began to follow his teenage dreams, Coelho worked as an actor, theater director, and journalist.
In one interview, he talked about fulfilling his dream to become a writer, saying: “I am very happy with the things I do. I do something that gives me food and water – to use metaphors in alkemis, I work, I have Someone I love, I have money, but I don’t fulfill my dream. My dream is, and still, being a writer. “
Career
Paulo Coelho’s first book, Under a Hell Archives, was published in 1982. Four years later, he contributed to a book, The Practical Manual of Vampireism, but after a while he considered it as a poor quality book. In 1987, The Coelho’s pilgrim was published, and in 1988, his book was the most selling, The Alchemist. Since then, he wrote many novels, including a love letter from a Prophet (1997), Veronika decided to die (1998), The Devil and Miss Prym (2000), Eleven Minutes (2003), The Zahir (2005), The Witch of Portobello (2006), and others. The four novels are autobiography, and that is pilgrimage (1987), The Valkyries (1992), Aleph (2010), and Hippie (2018).
Personal life
In 1980, Coelho married Christina Oiticica. The couple lives in Geneva, Switzerland. He has created the virtual foundation Paulo Coelho, which provides opportunities for Brazilian members who are not fixated and ostracized. Coelho holds Guinness World Records because it has the book most translated by the living writer.
Paulo Coelho Net Worth 2019
Paulo Coelho’s net worth is estimated to be up to $ 500 million. Most of his income came from his books, and also from them was adapted into series and films.
