Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to story telling -- in prose and in poetry, in art and in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of Aug. 24th
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It is the 236th day of the year, leaving 129 days remaining in 2022.
He told his stories with rich symbolism. Inspired by his own 500-mile pilgrimage along the legendary route of Santiago de Compostela, he often sent his characters on the own spiritual journeys.
Indeed, his first novel, O Diário de um Mago, told his own story, and how it renewed some of his Catholic faith. It was later published in English as The Diary of Magus and reissued as The Pilgrimage in 1995.
And Coehlo's best known work, The Alchemist, tells of a shepherd on a quest to the Egyptian pyramids after dreaming of finding a treasure there. Published in 1988, it struggled to find an audience. but after several publishers gave it a try, it was an international best-seller.
A theatrical adaptation was produced in London in 2002, and an adaptation as a graphic novel was published in 2010.
He has published more than 20 books since then, many autobiographical novels. Some of them are novels about journeys, and others are collections of essays or shorts writings. They have been translated into some 80 languages.
He currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland.
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