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Contents
Articles
Paulo Coelho
1
Academia Brasileira de Letras
5
Brida (novel)
11
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
12
Christina Oiticica
13
Eleven Minutes
16
Like the Flowing River
19
Manual of the Warrior of Light
20
Raul Seixas
21
Rio de Janeiro
25
Rita Lee
62
The Alchemist (novel)
67
The Devil and Miss Prym
73
The Fifth Mountain
74
The Pilgrimage
75
The Valkyries (novel)
76
The Winner Stands Alone
77
The Witch of Portobello
78
The Zahir (novel)
80
Veronika Decides to Die
82
Veronika Decides to Die (film)
84
Way of St. James
86
William Blake
98
Yehudi Menuhin
119
References
Article Sources and Contributors
126
Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors
130
Article Licenses
License
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Paulo Coelho
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Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho
Violinist Lord Menuhin and Coelho at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, in 1999
Born
August 24, 1947
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Occupation
Novelist, Lyricist, Musician
Nationality
Brazilian
Genres
Drama, Self-improvement, Psychology
Paulo Coelho (Portuguese: [ˈpawlu kuˈeʎu]; born August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He has become
one of the most widely read authors in the world today. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious international
awards, amongst them the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum and France's Légion d'honneur.
Biography
Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil[1] and attended a Jesuit school. As a teenager, Coelho wanted to
become a writer. Upon telling his mother this, she responded with "My dear, your father is an engineer. He's a
logical, reasonable man with a very clear vision of the world. Do you actually know what it means to be a writer?"[1]
After researching, Coelho concluded that a writer "always wears glasses and never combs his hair" and has a "duty
and an obligation never to be understood by his own generation," amongst other things.[1] At 16, Coelho's
introversion and opposition to following a traditional path led to his parents committing him to a mental institution
from which he escaped three times before being released at the age of 20.[2][3] Coelho later remarked that "It wasn't
that they wanted to hurt me, but they didn't know what to do... They did not do that to destroy me, they did that to
save me."[4] At his parents' wishes, Coelho enrolled in law school and abandoned his dream of becoming a writer.
One year later, he dropped out and lived life as a hippie, traveling through South America, North Africa, Mexico,
[5][6]
Upon his return to Brazil, Coelho worked as a songwriter, composing
and Europe and started drugs in the 1960s.
lyrics for Elis Regina, Rita Lee, and Brazilian icon Raul Seixas. Composing with Raul led to Paulo being associated
with magic and occultism, due to the content of some songs.[7] In 1974, Coelho was arrested for "subversive"
activities by the ruling military government, who had taken power ten years earlier and viewed his lyrics as left-wing
and dangerous.[4] Coelho also worked as an actor, journalist, and theatre director before pursuing his writing
career.[7]
In 1986, Coelho walked the 500-plus mile Road of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, a turning point in
his life.[5][8] On the path, Coelho had a spiritual awakening, which he described autobiographically in The
Pilgrimage.[9] In an interview, Coelho stated "[In 1986], I was very happy in the things I was doing. I was doing
something that gave me food and water – to use the metaphor in "The Alchemist", I was working, I had a person
Paulo Coelho
whom I loved, I had money, but I was not fulfilling my dream. My dream was, and still is, to be a writer."[10] Coelho
would leave his lucrative career as a songwriter and pursue writing full-time.
Writing career
In 1982 Coelho published his first book, Hell Archives, which failed to make any significant impact.[7] In 1986 he
contributed to the Practical Manual of Vampirism, although he later tried to take it off the shelves since he
considered it “of bad quality."[7] After making the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in 1986, Coelho wrote The
Pilgrimage. The following year, Coelho wrote The Alchemist and published it through a small Brazilian publishing
house who made an initial print run of 900 copies and decided not to reprint.[11] He subsequently found a bigger
publishing house, and with the publication of his next book Brida, The Alchemist became a Brazilian bestseller.[11]
The Alchemist has gone on to sell more than 65 million copies, becoming one of the best-selling books in history,
and has been translated into 71 different languages, the 71st being Maltese, winning the Guinness World Record for
most translated book by a living author.[7][12]
"The Alchemist," easily known as his most successful story, is a story about a young shepherd who follows his
spiritual journey to the Egyptian pyramids in search of a treasure.
Since the publication of The Alchemist, Coelho has generally written one novel every two years including By the
River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, The Fifth Mountain, Veronika Decides to Die, The Devil and Miss Prym, Eleven
Minutes, Like the Flowing River, The Valkyries and The Witch of Portobello. This dates back to The Pilgrimage:
While trying to overcome his procrastination of launching his writing career, Coelho said, "If I see a white feather
today, that is a sign that God is giving me that I have to write a new book." Coelho found a white feather in the
window of a shop, and began writing that day.[9]
In total, Coelho has published 30 books. Three of them – The Pilgrimage,The Valkyries and Aleph – are
autobiographical, while the majority of the rest are fictional, although rooted in his life experiences.[5] Others, like
Maktub and The Manual of the Warrior of Light, are collections of essays, newspaper columns, or selected teachings.
In total, Coelho has sold more than 150 million books in over 150 countries worldwide, and his works have been
translated into 71 languages.[6][7] He is the all-time bestselling Portuguese language author.
Coelho also writes up to three blog posts a week at his blog.[13]
Adaptations
Several of Coelho's books have been adapted into other media.
• 1998 TV Manchete made a 52-episode miniseries based on Brida. This adaptation was written by Jayme
Camargo, Sônia Mota and Agélica Lopes, and directed by Walter Avancini. The Brazilian actress Carolina
Kasting played Brida. It was the last novel filmed by TV Manchete. It was an audience failure and this adaptation
was even reproved by Paulo Coelho himself. Due to the lack of sponsors, it had a premature ending: the last
scenes were not recorded, being replaced by screenshots with narrations.
• 2004 Warner Bros. bought the rights to the film adaptation of The Alchemist. The project stalled and never
materialized and the film rights were sold to Harvey Weinstein who will serve as the film's producer.
• 2007 In June Paulo Coelho announced The Experimental Witch Project, a collaborative project based on The
Witch of Portobello.[14]
• 2009 Veronika Decides to Die was made into a film released in 2009.
• 2011 In July Coelho ran Aleph, The Video Contest to collaborate and increase interaction with his more than
5,000,000 friends on Facebook. The winner was Turkish artist Raif Kurt.[15]
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Personal life
Coelho and his wife Christina Oiticica divide their time between Europe and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[16] In 1996,
Coelho founded the Paulo Coelho Institute, which provides aid to children and elderly people with financial
problems.[17][18] In September 2007, Coelho was named a Messenger of Peace to the UN.[19]
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Member of the Board of the Shimon Peres Center for Peace
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (France)
UNESCO special counsellor for “Intercultural Dialogues and Spiritual Convergences”
Board Member of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters
Member of INI International Advisory Council – Harvard International Negotiation Program
Member of the Board, Doha Center of Media Freedom
On May 9, 2006, in Sofia, Bulgaria, Paulo Coelho was awarded by the President of Bulgaria Georgi Parvanov the
"The Honorable Award of the President of the Republic".[20]
Bibliography
Note: Although the biography section of Coelho's website states that his first book was published in 1982,[7][21] the
Official Fan Club Paulo Coelho website lists two additional books published in 1974: The Manifest of Krig-há and
Theater For Education.[22]
Year
Portuguese Title
English Title
1974 O Manifesto de Krig-há
The Manifest of Krig-há
1974 Teatro da Educação
Theater For Education
1982 Arquivos do Inferno
Hell Archives
1986 O Manual Prático do
Vampirismo
Practical Manual of Vampirism
1988 O Diário de Um Mago
The Pilgrimage
1988 O Alquimista
The Alchemist
1990 Brida[23]
Brida
1991 O Dom Supremo
The Greatest Gift
1992 As Valkírias
The Valkyries
1994 Maktub
Maktub
Na margem do rio Piedra eu
sentei e chorei
[23]
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
1996 O Monte Cinco
The Fifth Mountain
1997 Letras do amor de um profeta
Love Letters from a Prophet
Manual do guerreiro da luz
1998 Veronika decide morrer
Palavras essenciais
2000 O Demônio e a srta Prym
The Manual of the Warrior of Light
Veronika Decides to Die
Essential Words
The Devil and Miss Prym
2001 Histórias para pais, filhos e netos Fathers, Sons and Grandsons
2003 Onze Minutos
Eleven Minutes
Paulo Coelho
2004 E no sétimo dia
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And on the Seventh Day (collection of the novels By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, Veronika
Decides to Die and The Devil and Miss Prym)
O Gênio e as Rosas
The Genie and the Roses
Viagens
Journeys
2005 O Zahir
Caminhos Recolhidos
2006 Ser como um rio que flui
The Zahir
Revived Paths
Like the Flowing River
A bruxa de Portobello
The Witch of Portobello
2007 Vida: Citações selecionadas
Life: Selected Quotations
2008 O Vencedor está Só
The Winner Stands Alone
2010 O Aleph (pt)
Aleph
2012 Manuscrito Encontrado em Accra Manuscript Found in Accra
References
[1] Thind, Jessi An Interview with Paulo Coelho (http:/ / www. arabia. msn. com/ Kids/ March2007/ paulocoelho. aspx) MSN Arabia
[2] Schaertl, Markia The Boy from Ipanema: Interview with Paulo Coelho (http:/ / paulocoelhoblog. com/ 2007/ 12/ 19/
paulo-coelho-interview-by-marika-schaertl-focus-munich/ ) reposted on Paulo Coelho's Blog. December 20, 2007.
[3] Doland, Angela Brazilian author Coelho thrives on contradictions and extremes (http:/ / findarticles. com/ p/ articles/ mi_qn4176/
is_20070520/ ai_n19164355) Oakland Tribune republished on BNet. May 20, 2007.
[4] Day, Elizabeth A mystery even to himself (http:/ / www. telegraph. co. uk/ culture/ donotmigrate/ 3643720/ A-mystery-even-to-himself. html)
The Daily Telegraph. June 14, 2005.
[5] An interview with Brazilian writer, Paulo Coelho: Everybody is a Magus (http:/ / www. lifepositive. com/ spirit/ traditional-paths/ sorcery/
coelho. asp) Life Positive. July 2000.
[6] Life and Letters: The Magus (http:/ / www. newyorker. com/ reporting/ 2007/ 05/ 07/ 070507fa_fact_goodyear) The New Yorker. May 7,
2007.
[7] Biography (http:/ / www. paulocoelho. com. br/ engl/ bio. shtml) Official Site of Paulo Coelho.
[8] Teacher's Guide to The Alchemist (http:/ / www. harpercollins. com/ harperimages/ ommoverride/ teacher_guide_alchemist. pdf) Harper
Collins Publisher.
[9] Reiss, Valerie Paulo Coelho Dances with Angels (http:/ / www. beliefnet. com/ Holistic-Living/ 2007/ 08/
Paulo-Coelho-Dances-With-Angels. aspx?p=2) Beliefnet.
[10] Interview with Paulo Coelho (http:/ / www. bbc. co. uk/ worldservice/ specials/ 133_wbc_archive_new/ page2. shtml) BBC World Service
Book Club. December 2004.
[11] A Brief History of the Book (http:/ / www. santjordi-asociados. com/ titles/ brief. htm?6#alchemist) Saint Jordi Asociados
[12] Film to be made of Coelho's 'Alchemist (http:/ / afp. google. com/ article/ ALeqM5i07sUo0IODPVAktHfpCoY4f6kzAQ) AFP. May 19,
2008.
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
"Paulo Coelho's Blog" (http:/ / paulocoelhoblog. com/ ). Paulocoelhoblog.com. 2011-10-08. . Retrieved 2011-11-11.
"The Experimental Witch" (http:/ / paulocoelhoblog. com/ experimentalwitch/ ). Paulo Coelho's Blog. .
"Aleph, The Video Contest Winners" (http:/ / paulocoelhoblog. com/ 2011/ 07/ 25/ aleph-the-video-winners/ ). Paulo Coelho's Blog. .
Riding, Alan Paulo Coelho: Writing in a Global Language (http:/ / www. nytimes. com/ 2005/ 08/ 30/ books/ 30coel. html?pagewanted=2&
_r=1) The New York Times. August 30, 2005.
[17] Brazil Bestseller Paulo Coelho's Latest Mission: Peace Messenger (http:/ / www. brazzilmag. com/ content/ view/ 8690/ 54/ ) Brazzil
Magazine. September 25, 2007.
[18] Paulo Coelho. "The Paulo Coelho Institute" (http:/ / www. paulocoelhoinstitute. org/ ). The Paulo Coelho Institute. . Retrieved 2011-11-11.
[19] Paulo Coelho (http:/ / www. un. org/ sg/ mop/ coelho. shtml) United Nations Messengers of Peace.
[20] bol.bg. "Президент На Република България" (http:/ / www. president. bg/ photo. php?y=2006& m=5). President.bg. . Retrieved
2011-11-11.
[21] Sant Jordi Associados Literary Agency: Paulo Coelho's Titles. (http:/ / www. santjordi-asociados. com/ titles. htm) Retrieved on October 7,
2006.
[22] Official Fanclub Paulo Coelho: Books. (http:/ / www. faclubepaulocoelho. com. br/ eng/ pc_obras. htm) Retrieved on October 7, 2006.
[23] "Brida book review" (http:/ / whatisonmynightstand. blogspot. in/ 2013/ 02/ magical-world-brought-right-to-your. html). On My Nightstand.
.
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External links
• Paulo Coelho and Ruthie DiTucci interview on SyndicatedNews.NET November 10, 2010 (http://www.
blogtalkradio.com/syndicatednews/2010/11/23/paolo-coelho-celebrates-the-20th-anniversary-of-th)
• Glauco Ortolano Interview, World Literature Today (http://paulocoelhoblog.com/pirate-books/English - An
Interview with Paulo Coelho - The Coming of Age of a Brazilian Phenomenon.pdf)
• Works by or about Paulo Coelho (http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86-99875) in libraries (WorldCat
catalog)
• Paulo Coelho (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm168723/) at the Internet Movie Database
• Paulo Coelho official blog (http://paulocoelhoblog.com)
• Warrior of the Light Online (http://www.warriorofthelight.com/engl/index.html)
• What's it like to be the alchemist? Interview with Forward Magazine, April 2009 (http://www.forwardsyria.
com/story/47)
• Appearance on Desert Island Discs, BBC-Radio July 4, 3 2005 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/
desertislanddiscs_20050703.shtml)
• Articles on openDemocracy (http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/Paulo_Coelho.jsp)
• A 1988 video interview (http://www.sidneyrezende.com/sec_entrevistas_view.php?id=55)
• Paulo Coelho's Interview with The Himalayan Times, Nepal (http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/
MostpopularNews.php?mostp=2&id=MjI1Nw==&catid=)
• Paulo Coelho on Goodreads (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/566.Paulo_Coelho)
• Stephen Capen Interview on Worldguide, Futurist Radio Hour – October 14, 1995 (http://www.worldmind.
com/Cannon/Culture/Interviews/coelho.html)
• Interview given to the podcast 'Jovem Nerd' – October 15, 2010 (http://jovemnerd.ig.com.br/nerdcast/
nerdcast-231-paulo-coelho-nerdcast-com-o-mago/)
Academia Brasileira de Letras
Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL) (Portuguese
bɾaziˈlejɾɐ dʒi ˈletɾɐs] (
listen) English: Brazilian Academy of Letters) is a
Brazilian literary non-profit society established at the
end of the 19th century by a group of 40 writers and
poets inspired by the Académie Française. The first
president, Machado de Assis, declared its foundation
on December 15, 1896, with the statutes being passed
on January 28, 1897. On July 20 of the same year, the
Academy entered into operation.
pronunciation: [akadeˈmiɐ
The Brazilian Academy of Letters is, according to its
statutes, charged with the care of the "national
Academia Brasileira de Letras in Rio de Janeiro
language" of Brazil (the Portuguese language) and with
the promotion of Brazilian literary arts. The Academy is considered the foremost institution devoted to the
Portuguese language in Brazil. Although it is not a state institution and no law grants to it oversight over the
language, by its prestige and technical qualification it is the paramount authority on Brazilian Portuguese. The
Academy's main publication in this field is the Ortographic Vocabulary of the Portuguese Language (Vocabulário
Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa) of which there were five editions. The Vocabulary is prepared by the Academy's
Commission on Lexicology and Lexicography. If a word is not included in the Vocabulary, it is considered not to
Academia Brasileira de Letras
exist as a correct word in Brazilian Portuguese.
The Orthographic Vocabulary, however, is not a Dictonary, as it contains words and their grammatical categories,
but not the definition or meaning of the words listed. Thus, unlike the French Academy, the Royal Spanish Academy
and other foreign institutions dedicated with the care of a national language, the Brazilian Academy of Letters, until
recently, published no official dictionary. Although it still stopped short of publishing a full official dictionary, the
Academy issued its first dictionary in 2009, the School Dictionary of the Portuguese Language (Dicionário Escolar
da Lingua Portuguesa), with students as its target customers.
The Academy does plan to publish a full and official Dictionary of the Brazilian Academy of Letters in the future.
For the time being, however, other dictionaries such as the Aurélio and the Houaiss remain more prestigious than the
School Dictionary, in spite of the fact that the latter is sometimes marketed by booksellers as the "ABL's
Dictionary", due to its being authored by the Academy. Both the Houaiss and the Aurélio Dictionaries, however,
were first compiled by members of the Academy (Antônio Houaiss and Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira,
respectively) in their private capacities and as personal professional enterprieses. The preparation of an official
dictionary of the Portuguese Language is a stated goal of the Brazilian Academy of Letters [1]
The Academy is composed to this day of 40 members, known as "immortals", chosen from among the citizens of
Brazil, who have published recognized works or books of literary value. The position of "immortal" is awarded for
the recipient's lifetime. New members are admitted by a vote of the Academy members when one of the "chairs"
become vacant. The chairs are numbered and each has a Patron: the Patrons are 40 great Brazilian writers that were
already dead when the Academy was founded; the names of the Patrons were chosen by the Founders and they were
honored post mortem by each being assigned patronage over a chair.
Thus, each of the 40 chairs is associated with its current holder, with the predecessors of the current holder who
occupied it before him, and, in particular, with the Founder who occupied it first, but also with the seat's Patron.
The academicians use formal gala gilded uniforms with a sword (the uniform is called "fardão") when participating
in official meetings of the Academy. During periods of dictatorship and military régime, the Academy's neutrality in
choosing proper members dedicated to the literary profession was compromised when it elected politicians with few
or no contributions to literature, such as ex-president Getúlio Vargas. The Academy, which was a purely male affair
until the groundbreaking election of novelist Rachel de Queiroz in 1977 for chair No. 5, now has four women
members (10% of its total membership), one of which, Nélida Piñon, served as president in 1996–97.
The Academy, thanks to good revenues in excess of $4 million a year, is well off financially. It owns a skyscraper
with 28 floors (Palácio Austregésilo de Athaide), in a valued area in the center of Rio, which the Academy rents for
office space, generating 70% of its current revenue. The rest comes from rental of other buildings, which were
legated by book editor Francisco Alves, in 1917, and from financial investments. This comfortable situation allows
for paying a "jeton" to each academician. The ABL is located just by its side, in a neoclassical building, which is
named "Petit Trianon". It was donated by the government of France in 1923 and is so named because it is a copy of
the Petit Trianon palace in Versailles, near Paris, France.
It has recently inaugurated one of the largest public libraries in Rio, with 90,000 volumes and a multimedia center.
The Academy annually awards several literary prizes: the Prêmio Machado de Assis (the most important literature
prize in the country, awarded for lifework), and the ABL prizes for poetry, for fiction and drama, for essays, critic
and history of the literature, and for children's literature. Sometimes, an extraordinary commemorative prize is also
awarded, such as the José Lins do Rego prize, in 2001, and the Afonso Arinos prize, in 2005.
The Academy also publishes a literary periodical, the Brazilian Review (Revista Brasileira), with quarterly editions.
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Original patrons
1. Adelino Fontoura
2. Álvares de Azevedo
3. Artur de Oliveira
4. Basílio da Gama
5. Bernardo Guimarães
6. Casimiro de Abreu
7. Castro Alves
8. Cláudio Manuel da Costa
9. Gonçalves de Magalhães
10. Evaristo da Veiga
11. Fagundes Varela
12. França Júnior
13. Francisco Otaviano
14. Franklin Távora
15. Gonçalves Dias
16. Gregório de Mattos
17. Hipólito da Costa
18. João Francisco Lisboa
19. Joaquim Caetano da Silva
20. Joaquim Manuel de Macedo
21. Joaquim Serra
22. José Bonifácio the Younger
23. José de Alencar
24. Júlio Ribeiro
25. Junqueira Freire
26. Laurindo Rabelo
27. Antônio Peregrino Maciel Monteiro
28. Manuel Antônio de Almeida
29. Martins Pena
30. Pardal Mallet
31. Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa
32. Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre
33. Raul Pompeia
34. Sousa Caldas
35. Tavares Bastos
36. Teófilo Dias
37. Tomás Antônio Gonzaga
38. Tobias Barreto
39. Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen
40. José Maria da Silva Paranhos
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Correspondents
1. Alexandre de Gusmão
2. António José da Silva
3. Manuel Botelho de Oliveira
4. Eusébio de Mattos
5. Francisco de Sousa
6. Matias Aires
7. Nuno Marques Pereira
8. Sebastião da Rocha Pita
9. Santa Rita Durão
10. Vicente do Salvador
11. Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira
12. Antônio de Morais Silva
13. Domingos Borges de Barros
14. Francisco do Monte Alverne
15. Joaquim Gonçalves Ledo
16. José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva
17. Odorico Mendes
18. Manuel Inácio da Silva Alvarenga
19. Sotero dos Reis
20. José da Silva Lisboa
Presidents
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 1897-1908
Ruy Barbosa 1908-1919
Domício da Gama 1919-1919
Carlos de Laet 1919-1922
Afrânio Peixoto 1922-1923
Medeiros e Albuquerque 1923-1923
Afrânio Peixoto 1923-1924
Afonso Celso 1925-1925
Coelho Neto 1926-1926
Rodrigo Otávio 1927-1927
Augusto de Lima 1928-1928
Fernando Magalhães 1929-1929
Aloisio de Castro 1930-1930
Fernando Magalhães 1931-1932
Gustavo Barroso 1932-1933
Ramiz Galvão 1933-1934
Afonso Celso 1935-1935
Laudelino Freire 1936-1936
Ataulfo de Paiva 1937-1937
Cláudio de Souza 1938-1938
Antônio Austregésilo 1939-1939
Celso Vieira 1940-1940
Levi Carneiro 1941-1941
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Macedo Sorares 1942-1943
Múcio Leão 1944-1944
Pedro Calmon 1945-1945
Cláudio de Sousa 1946-1946
João Neves da Fontoura 1947-1947
Adelmar Tavares 1948-1948
Miguel Osório de Almeida 1949-1949
Gustavo Barroso 1950-1950
Aloisio de Castro 1951-1951
Aníbal Freire da Fonseca 1952-1952
Barbosa Lima Sobrinho 1953-1954
Rodrigo Otávio Filho 1955-1955
Peregrino Júnior 1956-1957
Elmano Cardim 1958-1958
Austregésilo de Athayde 1959-1993
Abgar Renault 1993-1993
Josué Montello 1993-1995
Antônio Houaiss 1995-1996
Nélida Piñon 1996-1997
Arnaldo Niskier 1997-1999
Tarcísio Padilha 2000-2002
Alberto da Costa e Silva 2002-2004
Ivan Junqueira 2004-2005
Marcos Vinícios Rodrigues Vilaça 2006-2007
Cícero Sandroni 2008
Current members
The members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (June 2008):
1. Ana Maria Machado
2. Tarcísio Padilha
3. Carlos Heitor Cony
4. Carlos Nejar
5. José Murilo de Carvalho
6. Cícero Sandroni
7. Nelson Pereira dos Santos
8. Cleonice Berardinelli
9. Alberto da Costa e Silva
10. Lêdo Ivo
11. Hélio Jaguaribe
12. Alfredo Bosi
13. Sergio Paulo Rouanet
14. Celso Lafer
15. Fernando Bastos de Ávila
16. Lygia Fagundes Telles
17. Affonso Arinos de M. Franco
18. Arnaldo Niskier
19. Antonio Carlos Secchin
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Murilo Melo Filho
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Sábato Magaldi
Alberto Venancio Filho
Marcos Vinicios Rodrigues Vilaça
Eduardo Portella
Domício Proença Filho
Geraldo Holanda Cavalcanti
Nélida Piñon
Moacyr Scliar
Ariano Suassuna
Evanildo Bechara
João Ubaldo Ribeiro
Candido Antonio Mendes de Almeida
João de Scantimburgo
Ivan Junqueira
José Sarney
Marco Maciel
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José Guilherme Merquior
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[1] http:/ / www. academia. org. br/ abl/ cgi/ cgilua. exe/ sys/ start. htm?sid=537
External links
• Academia Brasileira de Letras (http://www.academia.org.br/) (Portuguese)
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Brida (novel)
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Brida (novel)
Brida
Author(s)
Paulo Coelho
Original title
Brida
Country
Brazil
Language
Portuguese
Genre(s)
Love, Mystery, Spiritual
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication date 1990
Pages
266
ISBN
ISBN 978-0-00-727859-6
Brida[1] is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho. It is the story of a beautiful young Irish girl and her quest for
knowledge. On her journey she meets a wise man who teaches her to overcome fear and a woman who teaches her
how to dance to the hidden music of the world. They see in her a gift, but must let her make her own voyage of
discovery. As Brida seeks her destiny, she struggles to find a balance between her relationships and her desire to
transform herself. The story is neatly woven around the ancient belief of witchcraft and related to the present world
in an interesting way.
References
[1] "Brida book review" (http:/ / whatisonmynightstand. blogspot. in/ 2013/ 02/ magical-world-brought-right-to-your. html). On My Nightstand. .
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and
Wept
Author(s)
Paulo Coelho
Original title
Na margem do rio Piedra eu sentei e chorei
Country
Brazil
Language
Portuguese
Genre(s)
Novel
Publication date 1994
Media type
Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages
192 pp (paperback edition)
ISBN
0-06-097726-4
OCLC Number
44531447
[1]
By the River Piedra I sat Down and Wept (Na margem do rio Piedra eu sentei e chorei) is one of Paulo Coelho's
most prominent titles. This is the first part in Coelho's trilogy "On the Seventh Day". The other two parts are
Veronika Decides to Die and The Devil and Miss Prym. This trilogy is a week in the life of someone ordinary to
whom something extraordinary happens.
The novel takes its title from the incipit of the famous Psalm 137: By the Rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea,
we wept, when we remembered Zion (KJV).
Plot summary
It is essentially a story about love. It also includes elements of paganism; in particular it focuses on the female aspect
of divinity.
The story focuses on Pilar, an independent young woman, who is frustrated with the grind of university life and
looking for greater meaning. Pilar's life takes a turn when she meets up with a childhood sweetheart, who is now a
spiritual teacher and a rumoured healer and miracle worker. They set off on a journey through the French Pyrenees
as the journey unfolds.
External links
• http://www.santjordi-asociados.com/title_school.htm#7day -On The Seventh Day
• http://www.paulocoelho.com -The Paulo Coelho official Website
References
[1] http:/ / worldcat. org/ oclc/ 44531447