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Dear Friends,
Please Vote for The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/143.F...
The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is an allegorical novel by Paulo Coelho first published in 1988. It follows Santiago, a young Spanish shepherd, on a journey to fulfill his Personal Legend. It has been hailed as a modern classic. The plot is inspired from Jorge Luis Borges' short story: Tale of two dreamers.
The Alchemist was originally written in Portuguese and has since been translated into 67 languages, winning the Guiness World Record for most translated book by a living author. It has sold more than 65 million copies in more than 150 countries, becoming one of the best-selling books in history.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
The Alchemist
Dear Friends,
Please Vote for The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/143.F...
The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is an allegorical novel by Paulo Coelho first published in 1988. It follows Santiago, a young Spanish shepherd, on a journey to fulfill his Personal Legend. It has been hailed as a modern classic. The plot is inspired from Jorge Luis Borges' short story: Tale of two dreamers.
The Alchemist was originally written in Portuguese and has since been translated into 67 languages, winning the Guiness World Record for most translated book by a living author. It has sold more than 65 million copies in more than 150 countries, becoming one of the best-selling books in history.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
The Alchemist
Dear Friends,
Please Vote for The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/143.F...
The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is an allegorical novel by Paulo Coelho first published in 1988. It follows Santiago, a young Spanish shepherd, on a journey to fulfill his Personal Legend. It has been hailed as a modern classic. The plot is inspired from Jorge Luis Borges' short story: Tale of two dreamers.
The Alchemist was originally written in Portuguese and has since been translated into 67 languages, winning the Guiness World Record for most translated book by a living author. It has sold more than 65 million copies in more than 150 countries, becoming one of the best-selling books in history.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
The Alchemist
Dear Friends, Please Vote for The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/143.F...
The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is an allegorical novel by Paulo Coelho first published in 1988. It follows Santiago, a young Spanish shepherd, on a journey to fulfill his Personal Legend. It has been hailed as a modern classic. The plot is inspired from Jorge Luis Borges' short story: Tale of two dreamers.
The Alchemist was originally written in Portuguese and has since been translated into 67 languages, winning the Guiness World Record for most translated book by a living author. It has sold more than 65 million copies in more than 150 countries, becoming one of the best-selling books in history.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
The Alchemist
Some people see you as a guru. Do you accept that?
Of course not.
Is it flattering?
No. It’s totally out of reality.
Are you a political writer?
Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament, it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings. I am at least giving the readers the sense they are not alone. But instead of trying to answer the question, “What is the meaning of life?” I try to give some meaning to my life.
When you were 17 your parents had you committed to an asylum.
Yes, three times, and also I was in jail three times, but I never saw myself as a victim. This is part of my journey. My parents wanted me to follow their dreams, not my dreams, and the simple fact that I didn’t accept that does not make me a criminal or an outcast. I thought, “One day I will write about it,” and I did. I wrote Veronica Decides to Die, and the book was about this: accept your differences and this is how you make a difference.
You can listen 3 minutes of the interview:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/20...
Or you can read the whole interview by clicking here.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar...
Some people see you as a guru. Do you accept that?
Of course not.
Is it flattering?
No. It’s totally out of reality.
Are you a political writer?
Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament, it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings. I am at least giving the readers the sense they are not alone. But instead of trying to answer the question, “What is the meaning of life?” I try to give some meaning to my life.
When you were 17 your parents had you committed to an asylum.
Yes, three times, and also I was in jail three times, but I never saw myself as a victim. This is part of my journey. My parents wanted me to follow their dreams, not my dreams, and the simple fact that I didn’t accept that does not make me a criminal or an outcast. I thought, “One day I will write about it,” and I did. I wrote Veronica Decides to Die, and the book was about this: accept your differences and this is how you make a difference.
You can listen 3 minutes of the interview:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/20...
Or you can read the whole interview by clicking here.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar...
The trailer of the movie "Veronika decides to die" (to be released in 2009): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtcZhIrhA...Please be welcome to watch it and leave your comments.
The trailer of the movie "Veronika decides to die" (to be released in 2009): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtcZhIrhA...Please be welcome to watch it and leave your comments.
PARIS (Reuters Life!) - The promotional power of piracy and artistic merits of blogging are among the themes to be discussed by bestselling author Paulo Coelho in his opening address to the Frankfurt Book Fair this week.
The 61-year-old Brazilian writer behind titles such as “The Alchemist” and “Eleven Minutes” is gaining a reputation as a digital pioneer for his enthusiastic embrace of online media.
Coelho maintains a personal blog as well as profiles across several social networking sites. He uses the mobile blogging tool “Twitter’ and regularly uploads videos to YouTube under the heading Privacy Zero. A few years ago, he even started distributing digital versions of his books for free over the internet. Reuters Television correspondent for technology, Matt Cowan, spoke to the author at his Paris home.
Q: What is the main reason you do all of this?
A: Fun. It’s such a pleasure to do this. I’m not a person that socializes very well. I don’t go to cocktail parties. I don’t go to parties in general. I discovered this fantastic world behind the web that helps me a lot as far as a professional, as a writer.
Q: How does it help you?
A: Not only is it a way to remain engaged but the basics of any writing is people and human conflicts. People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open. Of course they have a persona. You never know if it’s true or not true but at the end of the day, even the persona has a good story to tell.
Q: Why do you think blogging is worthwhile?
A: If you asked the monks in Medieval times what they thought about Gutenberg and the press, they’d say “oh, what is the validity of having some printed books? We’re here, we’re printing, we’re designing every single letter with beautiful calligraphy. This is art. This is sacred and the printing process that Gutenberg invented is nothing.’ I think we are in the same situation now. People can show and express what they feel through images, text and movies. Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
Q: You didn’t set out to become a digital pioneer though.
A: At the very beginning it was to get information to write books and then you feel owe something, you’re getting but you’re not giving. And then you start giving, and then you realize how important it is to give away. If you go to my blog you’ll see a lot of free things. And does this keep me selling less or more books? Nobody knows. I’m going to The Frankfurt Book Fair to talk exactly about that. I don’t know if it sells books, but I know that I’m sharing my soul. This is the goal of any artist.
Q: Excited about multimedia as an alternative to books?
A: As a writer, I’m excited about experiencing everything.
I have just made a movie with my readers. For one year, I took one of my books “The Witch of Portobello” and I said “you have to choose one character and make a movie out of it. And we had over 6,000 people participate in this contest. And I had to select 15, and I selected 15 and we have a fantastic movie.
Q: Why are you so interested in social networking sites?
A: It’s not like I’m tired of writing books. But I am excited to write for new platforms because this challenges you to use new languages. You have to be direct. I am very direct in my books, but still the internet has a different structure of writing. And I’m learning. This is what excites me. It’s like I’m in a new realm now. Without leaving my book writing behind, I am expanding my universe.
Q: Tell me about the idea behind Privacy Zero.
A: The idea behind Privacy Zero is that privacy zero is a reality. You don’t have a private life anymore. So I started putting videos of things that happen to me (on YouTube). Of course the first reaction from the so-called marketing people in publishing houses is “this is wrong - you have to keep an aura of mystery. You should be in an ivory tower, nobody should know what you’re doing’ and I said okay but then I’m not going to have fun.
Q: Do you worry about your security or unbalanced fans?
A: John Lennon was killed before the internet. If you think about these things you don’t do anything. So, yes, you have to take risks.
Q: What is the significance of HarperCollins’s decision to make free electronic versions of some of its books?
A: I had this great CEO at HarperCollins Jane Friedman. I got a call from her and I said I cannot take it back (mentioning at a conference that he was making his books available for free through his website). I said let’s solve the problem, let’s not go back to the past. HarperCollins developed this browsing site where you can read the book but you cannot download the book. So I say, “phew.”
http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/10/14/re...
PARIS (Reuters Life!) - The promotional power of piracy and artistic merits of blogging are among the themes to be discussed by bestselling author Paulo Coelho in his opening address to the Frankfurt Book Fair this week.
The 61-year-old Brazilian writer behind titles such as “The Alchemist” and “Eleven Minutes” is gaining a reputation as a digital pioneer for his enthusiastic embrace of online media.
Coelho maintains a personal blog as well as profiles across several social networking sites. He uses the mobile blogging tool “Twitter’ and regularly uploads videos to YouTube under the heading Privacy Zero. A few years ago, he even started distributing digital versions of his books for free over the internet. Reuters Television correspondent for technology, Matt Cowan, spoke to the author at his Paris home.
Q: What is the main reason you do all of this?
A: Fun. It’s such a pleasure to do this. I’m not a person that socializes very well. I don’t go to cocktail parties. I don’t go to parties in general. I discovered this fantastic world behind the web that helps me a lot as far as a professional, as a writer.
Q: How does it help you?
A: Not only is it a way to remain engaged but the basics of any writing is people and human conflicts. People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open. Of course they have a persona. You never know if it’s true or not true but at the end of the day, even the persona has a good story to tell.
Q: Why do you think blogging is worthwhile?
A: If you asked the monks in Medieval times what they thought about Gutenberg and the press, they’d say “oh, what is the validity of having some printed books? We’re here, we’re printing, we’re designing every single letter with beautiful calligraphy. This is art. This is sacred and the printing process that Gutenberg invented is nothing.’ I think we are in the same situation now. People can show and express what they feel through images, text and movies. Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
Q: You didn’t set out to become a digital pioneer though.
A: At the very beginning it was to get information to write books and then you feel owe something, you’re getting but you’re not giving. And then you start giving, and then you realize how important it is to give away. If you go to my blog you’ll see a lot of free things. And does this keep me selling less or more books? Nobody knows. I’m going to The Frankfurt Book Fair to talk exactly about that. I don’t know if it sells books, but I know that I’m sharing my soul. This is the goal of any artist.
Q: Excited about multimedia as an alternative to books?
A: As a writer, I’m excited about experiencing everything.
I have just made a movie with my readers. For one year, I took one of my books “The Witch of Portobello” and I said “you have to choose one character and make a movie out of it. And we had over 6,000 people participate in this contest. And I had to select 15, and I selected 15 and we have a fantastic movie.
Q: Why are you so interested in social networking sites?
A: It’s not like I’m tired of writing books. But I am excited to write for new platforms because this challenges you to use new languages. You have to be direct. I am very direct in my books, but still the internet has a different structure of writing. And I’m learning. This is what excites me. It’s like I’m in a new realm now. Without leaving my book writing behind, I am expanding my universe.
Q: Tell me about the idea behind Privacy Zero.
A: The idea behind Privacy Zero is that privacy zero is a reality. You don’t have a private life anymore. So I started putting videos of things that happen to me (on YouTube). Of course the first reaction from the so-called marketing people in publishing houses is “this is wrong - you have to keep an aura of mystery. You should be in an ivory tower, nobody should know what you’re doing’ and I said okay but then I’m not going to have fun.
Q: Do you worry about your security or unbalanced fans?
A: John Lennon was killed before the internet. If you think about these things you don’t do anything. So, yes, you have to take risks.
Q: What is the significance of HarperCollins’s decision to make free electronic versions of some of its books?
A: I had this great CEO at HarperCollins Jane Friedman. I got a call from her and I said I cannot take it back (mentioning at a conference that he was making his books available for free through his website). I said let’s solve the problem, let’s not go back to the past. HarperCollins developed this browsing site where you can read the book but you cannot download the book. So I say, “phew.”
http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/10/14/re...
PARIS (Reuters Life!) - The promotional power of piracy and artistic merits of blogging are among the themes to be discussed by bestselling author Paulo Coelho in his opening address to the Frankfurt Book Fair this week.
The 61-year-old Brazilian writer behind titles such as “The Alchemist” and “Eleven Minutes” is gaining a reputation as a digital pioneer for his enthusiastic embrace of online media.
Coelho maintains a personal blog as well as profiles across several social networking sites. He uses the mobile blogging tool “Twitter’ and regularly uploads videos to YouTube under the heading Privacy Zero. A few years ago, he even started distributing digital versions of his books for free over the internet. Reuters Television correspondent for technology, Matt Cowan, spoke to the author at his Paris home.
Q: What is the main reason you do all of this?
A: Fun. It’s such a pleasure to do this. I’m not a person that socializes very well. I don’t go to cocktail parties. I don’t go to parties in general. I discovered this fantastic world behind the web that helps me a lot as far as a professional, as a writer.
Q: How does it help you?
A: Not only is it a way to remain engaged but the basics of any writing is people and human conflicts. People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open. Of course they have a persona. You never know if it’s true or not true but at the end of the day, even the persona has a good story to tell.
Q: Why do you think blogging is worthwhile?
A: If you asked the monks in Medieval times what they thought about Gutenberg and the press, they’d say “oh, what is the validity of having some printed books? We’re here, we’re printing, we’re designing every single letter with beautiful calligraphy. This is art. This is sacred and the printing process that Gutenberg invented is nothing.’ I think we are in the same situation now. People can show and express what they feel through images, text and movies. Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
Q: You didn’t set out to become a digital pioneer though.
A: At the very beginning it was to get information to write books and then you feel owe something, you’re getting but you’re not giving. And then you start giving, and then you realize how important it is to give away. If you go to my blog you’ll see a lot of free things. And does this keep me selling less or more books? Nobody knows. I’m going to The Frankfurt Book Fair to talk exactly about that. I don’t know if it sells books, but I know that I’m sharing my soul. This is the goal of any artist.
Q: Excited about multimedia as an alternative to books?
A: As a writer, I’m excited about experiencing everything.
I have just made a movie with my readers. For one year, I took one of my books “The Witch of Portobello” and I said “you have to choose one character and make a movie out of it. And we had over 6,000 people participate in this contest. And I had to select 15, and I selected 15 and we have a fantastic movie.
Q: Why are you so interested in social networking sites?
A: It’s not like I’m tired of writing books. But I am excited to write for new platforms because this challenges you to use new languages. You have to be direct. I am very direct in my books, but still the internet has a different structure of writing. And I’m learning. This is what excites me. It’s like I’m in a new realm now. Without leaving my book writing behind, I am expanding my universe.
Q: Tell me about the idea behind Privacy Zero.
A: The idea behind Privacy Zero is that privacy zero is a reality. You don’t have a private life anymore. So I started putting videos of things that happen to me (on YouTube). Of course the first reaction from the so-called marketing people in publishing houses is “this is wrong - you have to keep an aura of mystery. You should be in an ivory tower, nobody should know what you’re doing’ and I said okay but then I’m not going to have fun.
Q: Do you worry about your security or unbalanced fans?
A: John Lennon was killed before the internet. If you think about these things you don’t do anything. So, yes, you have to take risks.
Q: What is the significance of HarperCollins’s decision to make free electronic versions of some of its books?
A: I had this great CEO at HarperCollins Jane Friedman. I got a call from her and I said I cannot take it back (mentioning at a conference that he was making his books available for free through his website). I said let’s solve the problem, let’s not go back to the past. HarperCollins developed this browsing site where you can read the book but you cannot download the book. So I say, “phew.”
http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/10/14/re...
Warrior of the Light: A Manual is an inspirational companion to The Alchemist, an international bestseller that has beguiled millions of readers around the world. Every short passage invites us to live out our dreams, to embrace the uncertainty of life, and to rise to our own unique destiny. In his inimitable style, Paulo Coelho helps bring out the Warrior of the Light within each of us. He also shows readers how to embark upon the way of the Warrior: the one who appreciates the miracle of being alive, the one who accepts failure, and the one whose quest leads him to become the person he wants to be.
Paulo Coelho is one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. Now, in the long-awaited companion to his first novel, Coelho presents a collection of philosophical stories that will delight and guide seekers everywhere.
Paulo is distributing for free his works on his blog: paulocoelhoblog.com
Now the full edition Warrior of the Light: A Manual is online for free:
http://newsletters.harpercollins.com/W0R...
Please Check it!
Warrior of the Light: A Manual is an inspirational companion to The Alchemist, an international bestseller that has beguiled millions of readers around the world. Every short passage invites us to live out our dreams, to embrace the uncertainty of life, and to rise to our own unique destiny. In his inimitable style, Paulo Coelho helps bring out the Warrior of the Light within each of us. He also shows readers how to embark upon the way of the Warrior: the one who appreciates the miracle of being alive, the one who accepts failure, and the one whose quest leads him to become the person he wants to be.
Paulo Coelho is one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. Now, in the long-awaited companion to his first novel, Coelho presents a collection of philosophical stories that will delight and guide seekers everywhere.
Paulo is distributing for free his works on his blog: paulocoelhoblog.com
Now the full edition Warrior of the Light: A Manual is online for free:
http://newsletters.harpercollins.com/W0R...
Please Check it!
Warrior of the Light: A Manual is an inspirational companion to The Alchemist, an international bestseller that has beguiled millions of readers around the world. Every short passage invites us to live out our dreams, to embrace the uncertainty of life, and to rise to our own unique destiny. In his inimitable style, Paulo Coelho helps bring out the Warrior of the Light within each of us. He also shows readers how to embark upon the way of the Warrior: the one who appreciates the miracle of being alive, the one who accepts failure, and the one whose quest leads him to become the person he wants to be.
Paulo Coelho is one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. Now, in the long-awaited companion to his first novel, Coelho presents a collection of philosophical stories that will delight and guide seekers everywhere.
Paulo is distributing for free his works on his blog: paulocoelhoblog.com
Now the full edition Warrior of the Light: A Manual is online for free:
http://newsletters.harpercollins.com/W0R...
Please Check it!
Warrior of the Light: A Manual is an inspirational companion to The Alchemist, an international bestseller that has beguiled millions of readers around the world. Every short passage invites us to live out our dreams, to embrace the uncertainty of life, and to rise to our own unique destiny. In his inimitable style, Paulo Coelho helps bring out the Warrior of the Light within each of us. He also shows readers how to embark upon the way of the Warrior: the one who appreciates the miracle of being alive, the one who accepts failure, and the one whose quest leads him to become the person he wants to be.
Paulo Coelho is one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. Now, in the long-awaited companion to his first novel, Coelho presents a collection of philosophical stories that will delight and guide seekers everywhere.
Paulo is distributing for free his works on his blog: paulocoelhoblog.com
Now the full edition Warrior of the Light: A Manual is online for free:
http://newsletters.harpercollins.com/W0R...
Please check it!
My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky."Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."
Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.
The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.
The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.
The first best-selling author Paulo Coelho is distributing for free his works on his blog:
http://www.paulocoelhoblog.com
Now the full edition of The Alchemist is online for free.
On the next months, Paulo is going to have full editions online of all his titles published in English.
The first best-selling author Paulo Coelho is distributing for free his works on his blog: http://www.paulocoelhoblog.com
The full edition of The Pilgrimage is online for free till the 10th of April.
On the next months, Paulo is going to have full editions online of all his titles published in English.
The first best-selling author Paulo Coelho is distributing for free his works on his blog: http://www.paulocoelhoblog.com
The full edition of The Pilgrimage is online for free till the 10th of April.
On the next months, Paulo is going to have full editions online of all his titles published in English.
The first best-selling author Paulo Coelho is distributing for free his works on his blog: http://www.paulocoelhoblog.com
The full edition of The Pilgrimage is online for free till the 10th of April.
On the next months, Paulo is going to have full editions online of all his titles published in English.
The first best-selling author Paulo Coelho is distributing for free his works on his blog: http://www.paulocoelhoblog.com
The full edition of The Pilgrimage is online for free till the 10th of April.
On the next months, Paulo is going to have full editions online of all his titles published in English.
