WRITER

Paulo Coelho

1947 - Today

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Paulo Coelho de Souza ( KWEL-yoo, koo-EL-yoo, -⁠yoh, Portuguese: [ˈpawlu kuˈeʎu]; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His 1988 novel The Alchemist became an international best-seller. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paulo Coelho is the 99th most popular writer (up from 103rd in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Brazil and the most popular Brazilian Writer.

Paulo Coelho is most famous for his book The Alchemist, which was published in 1988. The book is about a shepherd boy named Santiago who goes on a quest to find a treasure in the pyramids of Egypt.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paulo Coelho ranks 99 out of 7,302. Before him are Milan Kundera, Heinrich Heine, Louisa May Alcott, Erich Maria Remarque, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Isaac Asimov. After him are Virginia Woolf, Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas fils, Miyamoto Musashi, Arthur Rimbaud, and François Rabelais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Paulo Coelho ranks 5. Before him are Hillary Clinton, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Johan Cruyff, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. After him are Stephen King, David Bowie, Sheikh Hasina, Florentino Pérez, Brian Johnson, Elton John, and Dilma Rousseff.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Paulo Coelho ranks 3 out of 2,236. Before him are Pelé (1940), and Ayrton Senna (1960). After him are Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (1945), Garrincha (1933), Oscar Niemeyer (1907), Zico (1953), Ronaldo (1976), Dilma Rousseff (1947), Pedro II of Brazil (1825), Mário Zagallo (1931), and Jair Bolsonaro (1955).

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Among WRITERS In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, Paulo Coelho ranks 1. After him are Jorge Amado (1912), Vinicius de Moraes (1913), Reinaldo Arenas (1943), Machado de Assis (1839), Osvaldo Moles (1913), Chico Xavier (1910), Mário de Andrade (1893), Augusto Boal (1931), José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920), Carlos Marighella (1911), and Bernardo Guimarães (1825).

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