If you watch paint-by-numbers biopic Paulo Coelho’s Best Story with no knowledge of who the elusive title character is, you will leave the film without understanding what made the celebrated author of ...

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 ...

One of the most important messages in “The Alchemist” is that each individual has a personal purpose in life, which is referred to as a "Personal Legend". Through Santiago's adventure, it is important ...

In the spring of 1988, a meeting at the Argumento bookstore in the trendy Leblon neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, would help spark the global success of the best-known Brazilian writer of our ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sony-based TriStar has stepped up to make a worldwide rights deal to turn the Paulo Coelho novel The Alchemist into a feature film. The book has been guided creatively for years by Cinema ...