PAULO COELHO is, quite simply, one of the world’s most influential writers.
His book The Alchemist has sold more than 75 million copies and has been
translated into 61 languages.
His fans include ex-President Bill Clinton, Nobel Prize-winner Kenzaburo Oe, actress Julia Roberts and singer Madonna (who rates The Alchemist as one of her favourite books).
The recipient of numerous prestigious awards, Coelho is a storyteller
credited with the power to inspire nations and change people’s lives. His
previous titles include The Pilgrimage, Eleven Minutes, The Devil and Miss
Prym, Veronika Decides to Die and The Zahir.
Coelho’s recent visit to Scotland only confirmed this popularity. At his
only UK speaking appearance, the Brazilian author attracted an audience of
600 Herald and Sunday Herald readers to the SECC in Glasgow.
Here we present a series of videocasts of this event.
See Coelho offer the audience an insight into his riveting new novel, The Witch of Portobello. Told in a series of fragments, it pieces together the life of a mysterious woman called Athena through the recorded interviews of those who knew her.
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