SAO PAULO (Reuters) - During the course of his life, Paulo Coelho spent time in a mental institution, wrote several popular songs and became one of world's best-selling authors with novels like "The ...

Study the fine print of any novel by Paulo Coelho and you’ll find all the signs of a master at work. Rita Braver traveled to Switzerland to pay him a visit: For this 69-year old man, his morning ...

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 ...

Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho has decided to delete a draft of a children’s book he was writing with Kobe Bryant — saying that it didn’t make sense to continue the project after the NBA legend’s ...

Paulo Coelho is not the literary world's most active Web aficionado, but he's certainly its most prominent. The Brazilian author has sold more than 100 million books, which include 14 short story ...

Don’t like Paulo Coelho’s book? Don’t pay for it. The bestselling author of "The Alchemist" put free e-copies of two of his books on his blog this week. He is asking readers to decide later whether ...

The bestselling author of the Alchemist, Paulo Coelho does not have a problem with book piracy. Instead he condones it and participates in the practice of uploading his own titles to the Pirate Bay.

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 ...