A Warrior's Life_ A Biography of Paulo Coelho ( PDFDrive )

Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres–France, 1996 Livre d’Or–France, 1996 ABERT Prize, Formador de Opinião–Brazil, 1996 Premio Internazionale Flaiano–Italy, 1996 Super Grinzane Cavour Literary Prize–Italy, 1996 Finalist in the International IMPAC Literary Award–Eire, 1997 and 2000 Protector de Honor–Spain, 1997 Comendador da Ordem do Rio Branco–Brazil, 1998 Diploma da Ordem Fraternal do Cruzeiro do Sul–Brazil, 1998 Fiera Del Libro per i Ragazzi–Italy, 1998 Flutuat Nec Mergitur–France, 1998 Libro de Oro for La Quinta Montaña–Argentina, 1998 Medaille de la Ville de Paris–France, 1998 Senaki Museum–Greece, 1998 Sara Kubitschek Prize–Brazil, 1998 Top Performance Nacional–Argentina, 1998 Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur–France, 1999 Huésped Distinguido de la Ciudad de Nuestra Señora de la Paz–Bolívia, 1999 Ksi żka Zagraniczna–Poland, 1999 Libro de Oro for Guerrero de la Luz–Argentina, 1999 Libro de Oro for Veronika Decide Morir–Argentina, 1999 Libro de Platina for El Alquimista–Argentina, 1999 Medalla de Oro de Galicia–Spain, 1999 Crystal Prize of the World Economic Forum–Switzerland, 1999 Crystal Mirror Prize–Poland, 2000 Member of the Pen Club Brazil–Brazil, 2001 Bambi Prize for Cultural Personality of the Year–Germany, 2001 Ville de Tarbes–France, 2001 XXIII Premio Internazionale Fregene–Italy, 2001 Diploma of the Academia Brasileira de Letras–Brazil, 2002 Miembro de Honor–Bolivia, 2002 Club of Budapest Planetary Arts Award in recognition of his literary work– Germany, 2002 International Corine prize for the best work of fiction for The Alchemist– Germany, 2002 Prix de la Littérature Consciente de la Planète–France, 2002 Ville d’Orthez–France, 2002 Médaille des Officiers des Arts et des Lettres–France, 2003 Medal from the Lviv Book Fair–Ukraine, 2004

Nielsen Gold Book Award for The Alchemist–United Kingdom, 2004 Order of Honour of Ukraine–Ukraine, 2004 Order of Saint Sophia for contribution to knowledge and culture–Ukraine, 2004 Premio Giovanni Verga–Italy, 2004 Golden Book award from the newspaper Vecernje Novosti–Serbia, 2004 Budapest Award–Hungary, 2005 Ex Libris award for Eleven Minutes–Serbia, 2005 Goldene Feder Award–Germany, 2005 International Author’s Award from DirectGroup Bertelsmann–Germany, 2005 8th Annual International Latino Book Award for The Zahir–United States, 2006 I Premio Álava en el Corazón–Spain, 2006 Kiklop Award for The Zahir in the Best-Seller of the Year Category–Croatia, 2006 ARTICLES Weekly articles written by Paulo Coelho are published in 109 publications in 60 countries: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Eire, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and Venezuela. CINEMA The film rights for four of his books have been negotiated with the following American studios: The Alchemist (Warner Brothers) The Fifth Mountain (Capistrano Productions) Eleven Minutes (Hollywood Gang Productions) Veronika Decides to Die (Muse Productions)

INTERNET Apart from his website, www.paulocoelho.com, which is available in sixteen languages, the author has a blog, www.paulocoelhoblog.com, and a Myspace page, www.myspace.com/paulocoelho. PAULO COELHO INSTITUTE The Paulo Coelho Institute is a non-profit organization financed entirely from the writer’s royalties and managed by Belina Antunes, the mother of his agent, Mônica. From time to time, Paulo makes large contributions from his other activities. The Institute’s main aim is to give opportunities to underprivileged and excluded members of Brazilian society, particularly children and the elderly. The Solar Meninos da Luz, founded in 1996, is co-sponsored by the Paulo Coelho Institute, which makes an annual contribution of US$400,000. The school offers entirely free education to 430 needy children in the Pavão- Pavãozinho e Cantagalo favela in Rio de Janeiro.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AUTHOR’S NOTE This book started life at the beginning of 2005 at Saint-Exupéry airport, in Lyons, in the south of France, when I met Paulo Coelho for the first time. As a journalist, I was used to accompanying international names and stars and imagined I would find him surrounded by bodyguards, secretaries and assistants. To my surprise, the man with whom I would spend much of the following three years turned up alone, with a rucksack on his back and dragging a small suitcase on wheels. It was there that the excavation began that would reveal one of the most extraordinary individuals I have ever worked with. After six weeks at his side, I returned to Brazil. Since the entire course of his life has revolved around Rio, I moved there and spent eight months following the trails left by the writer. I looked for Paulo Coelho everywhere and probed behind the events that had left so many scars. I searched for him in the dark alleys of the roughest areas of Copacabana, among the records of the insane and the ruins of what had once been Dr Eiras’s clinic, in the dangerous world of drugs, in files dating from the years of political repression in Brazil, in satanism, in mysterious secret societies, in his partnership with Raul Seixas, in his family and his genealogy. I talked to friends and those who had fallen out with him, interviewed many of his ex-lovers and spent some time with his present–and, he vows, his last–partner, the artist Christina Oiticica. I rummaged through his life, dug deep into his private affairs, read his will, studied his medications, read his bank statements, felt in his pockets and searched for the children I imagined must have resulted from his various relationships and love affairs.

I won a bet with him that gave me access to a treasure that he had decided was to be burnt after his death: a trunk that held forty years of diaries, many of them recorded on cassette tapes. I spent weeks closeted in the Paulo Coelho Institute scanning documents, photos, old diaries and letters both received and sent. Once my time in Rio was over, I again accompanied him on trips to various corners of the earth with a recorder slung over my shoulder, listening to his nasal voice and to his comments, and watching that strange tic he has of flicking away non-existent flies from his eyes. I went with him on the road to Santiago de Compostela, I saw how moved he was on meeting a group of ordinary readers in Oñati, in the Spanish Basque country and in Cairo, and I watched him being acclaimed by men in black ties and women in long dresses at banquets held in his honour in Paris and Hamburg. I put together the pieces left behind by Paulo Coelho throughout his sixty years, and the result is this book. Although the responsibility for everything written here is mine alone, I must acknowledge the help of the dozens of people who helped me along the way. Firstly, my old friend Wagner Homem. I asked him to apply his expertise to organizing the vast quantity of data, interviews and documents that I accumulated during three years of research. He ended up moving into my house, where for ten uninterrupted months he worked on that, as well as reading and re-reading the final text and making valuable suggestions for improving it. My gratitude must also go to two brothers: one putative, Ricardo Setti, who has long been in charge of quality control with regard to my books and whose talent has saved me at the most difficult moments, and one real, Reinaldo Morais, who moved heaven and earth to make sure that the book reached its final destination safely. I must also thank all those who generously collaborated on this book, the many people I interviewed and the researchers, journalists, trainees and stringers who found and interviewed the individuals who have given life, colour and human warmth to this story. These are: Adriana Negreiros, Afonso Borges, Aldo Bocchini Neto, Alfonso Molinero, Ana Carolina da Motta, Ana Paula Granello, Antônio Carlos Monteiro de Castro, Armando Antenore, Armando Perigo, The Association of Old Boys of the St Ignatius College, Áurea Soares de Oliveira, Áureo Sato, Beatriz de Medeiros de Souza, Belina Antunes, Carina Gomes, Carlos Augusto Setti, Carlos Heitor Cony, Carlos Lima, Célia Valente, Cláudio Humberto Rosa e Silva, César Polcino Milies, Dasha Balashova, Denis Kuck, Devanir Barbosa Paes, Diego de Souza Martins, Eliane Lobato, Eric Nepomuceno, Evanise dos Santos, Fernando Eichenberg, Firmeza Ribeiro dos Santos, Francisco Cordeiro, Frédéric Bonomelli, Gemma Capdevila, Herve Louit, Hugo Carlo Batista Ramos, Ibarê Dantas, Inês Garçoni, Instituto Paulo

Coelho and Sant Jordi Associados, Ivan Luiz de Oliveira, Ivone Kassu, Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos, Joca do Som, José Antonio Martinuzzo, Juliana Perigo, Klecius Henrique, Leonardo Oiticica, Lourival Sant’Anna, Lúcia Haddad, Luciana Amorim, Luciana Franzolin, Luiz Cordeiro Mergulhão, Lyra Netto, Marcio José Domingues Pacheco, Marcio Valente, Marilia Cajaíba, Mário Magalhães, Mário Prata, Marisilda Valente, Mariza Romero, Marizilda de Castro Figueiredo, Pascoal Soto, Raphael Cardoso, Ricardo Hofstetter, Ricardo Schwab, Roberto Viana, Rodrigo Pereira Freire, Samantha Quadrat, Silvia Ebens, Silvio Essinger, Sylvio Passos, Talles Rodrigues Alves, Tatiana Marinho, Tatiane Rangel, Véronique Surrel, Vicente Paim and Wilson Moherdaui. Finally, I would like to thank the hundreds of people from more than thirty countries who sent data, documents and photos to the website http://www.cpc.com.br/paulocoelho/, which was created in order to receive such contributions, some of whom supplied important information that I have used in this book. Fernando Morais Ilhabela, March 2008

THOSE INTERVIEWED FOR THIS BOOK Acácio Paz Afonso Galvão Alan Clarke Amapola Rios André Midani Andréa Cals Antonio Carlos Austregésilo de Athayde Antonio Carlos ‘Kakiko’ Dias Antonio Cláudio de Lima Vieira Antônio Ovídio Clement Fajardo Antônio Walter Sena, Jr. (‘Toninho Buda’) Arash Hejazi Ariovaldo Bonas Arnaldo Niskier Arnold Bruver, Jr. Artur da Távola Basia Stepien Beatriz Vallandro Cecilia Bolocco Cecília Mac Dowell Chico Castro Silva Christina Oiticica Cristina Lacerda Darc Costa Dedê Conte Eduardo Jardim de Moraes Élide ‘Dedê’ Conte Ernesto Emanuelle Mandarino Eugênio Mohallen Fabíola Fracarolli Fernando Bicudo Frédéric Beigbeder Frédéric Morel Geneviève Phalipou Gilles Haeri Glória Albues Guy Jorge Ruffier Hélio Campos Mello Henrique Caban Hildegard Angel Hildebrando Goes Filho Ilma Fontes Índio do Brasil Lemes Isabela Maltarolli Ivan Junqueira Jerry Adriani Joel Macedo Jorge Luiz Costa Ramos Jorge Mourão José Antonio Mendonça Neto José Antonio ‘Pepe’ Domínguez José Mário Pereira José Reinaldo Rios de Magalhães José Wilker Julles Haeri Kika Seixas Leda Vieira de Azevedo Lizia Azevedo Marcelo Nova Márcia Faria Lima Márcia Nascimento Marcos Medeiros Bastos

Marcos Mutti Marcos Paraguassu Arruda Câmara Maria Cecília Duarte Arraes de Alencar Maria Eugênia Stein Marie Christine Espagnac Marilu Carvalho Mário Sabino Maristela Bairros Maurício Mandarino Michele Conte Milton Temer Mônica Antunes Nelly Canellas Branco Nelson Liano, Jr Nelson Motta Orietta Paz Patrice Hoffman Patricia Martín Paula Braconnot Paulo Roberto Rocco Pedro Queima Coelho de Souza Regina Bilac Pinto Renato Menescal Renato Pacca Ricardo Sabanes Rita Lee Roberto Menescal Rodrigo Meinberg Rosana Fiengo Serge Phalipou Sidney Magal Silvio Ferraz Soizik Molkhou Sônia Maria Coelho de Souza Stella Paula Costa Vera Prnjatovic Richter Zé Rodrix Zeca Araújo Zuenir Ventura PHOTOGRAPHIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Every effort has been made to ensure the origin and ownership of the photos used in this book. This was not always possible, particularly in the case of photos obtained from family collections or those of friends of Paulo Coelho. I should be happy to give credit to the photographers should they come forward.

About the Author FERNANDO MORAIS is one of the most important and preeminent journalists in South America and is widely credited with making the biography a popular genre in Brazil. He is also a well-known politician and activist whose articles have stirred much debate in both his native country and South America in general. He lives in São Paulo. Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins author.

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* Adolf Fritz, generally called Dr Fritz, was a hypothetical German surgeon whose spirit was said to have been channelled by various psychic surgeons in Brazil, starting with Zé Arigo in the 1950s and continuing up to the present. There is no proof that he actually existed.

Table of Contents Cover Title Page Dedication Epigraph Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Photographic Insert Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29

Chapter 30 Facts about Paulo Coelho Acknowledgements About the Author Copyright About the Publisher