Sant Jordi Asociados has closed deals to publish three new editions of The Alchemist, which will be launched in Hausa, Somalian and Kiswahili shortly. With these languages, the novel will soon be available in 88 languages:
Aaron Rodgers, the American football player of the NFL, recently recommended The Alchemist on The Pat McAfee talk show while announcing The Aaron Rodgers Book Club. The Alchemist is his first choice as one of his favourite books.
The player’s book club has had a tremendous reception among readers, who have purchased The Alchemist and posted about it on Twitter, with a subsequent massive sales increase on Amazon.com.
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Paulo Coelho’s novel The Alchemist honoured in downtown Fayetteville, NC.
Simplicity, is a diary for 2022 with quotes from Paulo Coelho’s works and illustrations by Colombian artist Catalina Estrada It is available in 20 different languages: Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
“The simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful.”
The Turkish edition (illustrated by Murat Kalkavan) comes out this month.
Harper Collins is launching “The Essential Paulo Coelho” boxed set in English, which includes six classic works, and the “Paulo Coelho Collection”, containing 13 titles.
Athenaeum Kiadó’s set includes six titles in Hungarian and Ikar’s five titles in Slovakian.
Each newly repackaged title of these different gift boxes is available for individual sale.
Check the covers’ design of all these collections in the International Covers section of this website.
The Alchemist has achieved a new milestone after being on USA Today’s bestselling book list for 600 consecutive weeks. It debuted on this list in April 2003.
The Korean edition (illustrated by Kim Dong-sung) is out this August. He graduated from Hongik University majoring oriental painting, and so far he has published more than 40 illustration books and picture books.
HarperCollins is launching the redesigned collection of Paulo Coelho’s backlist on August 3rd. The cover art for all 12 titles was designed by Jim Tierney and are now visually aligned with the 25th Anniversary Edition of The Alchemist.
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