The Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho — whose The Alchemist has been a fixture of the Western trade-paperback shelf since 1988 — talks with Krista Tippett about pilgrimage as the underlying frame for his fiction, the Camino de Santiago walk that preceded his break-through book, and what readers project onto his fable register. The interview is one of the few extended on-record conversations he has given.
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The Brazilian lyricist Paulo Coelho is best known for his book “The Alchemist” — which has been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 400 weeks. His fable-like stories turn life, love, writing, and reading into pilgrimage. In a rare conversation, we meet the man behind the writings and explore what he’s touched in modern people.