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 ...

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 ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — 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 ...

Author Paulo Coelho was in the process of working on a children's book with Kobe Bryant, but in the wake of the Los Angeles Lakers legend's death he decided to delete the entire draft. Coelho spoke ...

Like his international best seller "The Alchemist," Paulo Coelho's new novel weaves a story that takes place in the past while the ideas it explores, he says, are more relevant than ever to the ...

Brazilian author Paulo Coelho revealed on Monday that he and Kobe Bryant were working on a children’s book together before the tragic helicopter crash that killed Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter ...