Monthly Archive: June 2009

Neda’s death. Eyewithness

As you might have read in Paulo Coelho’s blog, I was the doctor who tried to save Neda. I am the person in the video who tries to control her bleeding… in vain. I was the one who looked into her eyes, right before they lost their light forever. A famous Iranian writer called Sadeq Hedayat once wrote: ‘There are...

The Alchemy of the Alchemist: How Paulo Coelho became the most translated living author for the same book

  A trans-cultural and trans-lingual publishing phenomenon Arash Hejazi May 2009 Introduction In April 2008, Paulo Coelho, the Brazilian author of The Alchemist, published in more than 150 countries (Sant Jordi, 2005) acquired the 2009 Guinness World Record for being the Most Translated Living Author for the same book (Sant Jordi, 2008). He also holds the Guinness Record for The...