# Paulo Coelho

- Id: `paulo_coelho`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/paulo-coelho/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `7c0a361679630424aba4d55fdc655cefab40af5379243c583bf8390c05903ff2`

## Summary

A Brazilian novelist, Paulo Coelho turns pilgrimage, vocation and decisive encounters into modern fables. His spare narratives invite readers to test the distance between a desired life, the signs they choose to trust and the price of acting on them.

## Overview

Dated public-knowledge snapshot for a living author, frozen on 27 September 2026.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "1947–present",
    "era": "Contemporary era",
    "distance": "79 years ago",
    "age_at_death": null
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "modern-philosophy",
    "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
    "detail": "Contemporary Brazilian literature and spiritual fiction",
    "labels": [
        "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "Contemporary Brazilian literature and spiritual fiction"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 2026,
    "display": "2026 CE",
    "reason": "Dated public-knowledge snapshot for a living author, frozen on 27 September 2026."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 396,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Rio de Janeiro",
        "period": "born 24 August 1947; elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 2002",
        "description": "Birthplace and the academy affiliation are documented by official and institutional sources.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www2.academia.org.br/academicos/paulo-coelho"
    },
    {
        "name": "Santiago de Compostela",
        "period": "1986 pilgrimage",
        "description": "The pilgrimage is publicly documented. This endpoint marker does not assert the exact route, stop dates or scene location.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.paulocoelho.com/"
    }
]
```