WRITER

Paulo Coelho

1947 - Today

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Paulo Coelho de Souza ( KWEL-yoo, koo-EL-yoo, -⁠yoh, Portuguese: [ˈpawlu koˈeʎu]; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paulo Coelho has received more than 5,208,728 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 96 in 2019). Paulo Coelho is the 103rd most popular writer (down from 80th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Brazil (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Writer.

Paulo Coelho is most famous for his book The Alchemist, which was published in 1988. The book is about a shepherd boy named Santiago who goes on a quest to find a treasure in the pyramids of Egypt.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 76.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 97

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

El Peregrino
1988
El Zahir
2005
Veronika Decide Morir
1999
Once Minutos
2003
A Orillas del Rio Piedra Me Sente y Llore
1975

Page views of Paulo Coelhos by language

Over the past year Paulo Coelho has had the most page views in the with 506,436 views, followed by Spanish (263,600), and Portuguese (117,760). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (119.70%), Guarani (97.27%), and Egyptian Arabic (93.13%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paulo Coelho ranks 103 out of 7,302. Before him are George Sand, Marquis de Sade, Jonathan Swift, Ismail I, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. After him are Abu Nuwas, Du Fu, André Gide, Stephen King, Maurice Maeterlinck, and August Strindberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Paulo Coelho ranks 5. Before him are Hillary Clinton, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Johan Cruyff. After him are Stephen King, David Bowie, Elton John, David Letterman, Brian Johnson, Dilma Rousseff, and Florentino Pérez.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Paulo Coelho ranks 3 out of 2,236. Before him are Pelé (1940), and Garrincha (1933). After him are Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (1945), Mário Zagallo (1931), Ronaldo (1976), Oscar Niemeyer (1907), Zico (1953), Ayrton Senna (1960), Dilma Rousseff (1947), Jair Bolsonaro (1955), and Jairzinho (1944).

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Among WRITERS In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, Paulo Coelho ranks 1. After him are Jorge Amado (1912), Vinicius de Moraes (1913), Machado de Assis (1839), Reinaldo Arenas (1943), Chico Xavier (1910), Mário de Andrade (1893), José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920), Augusto Boal (1931), Osvaldo Moles (1913), Carlos Marighella (1911), and Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902).

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