Literature Paulo Coelho opens his museum in Geneva in September
The Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho will open a museum in Geneva in September. The 77-year-old author of "The Alchemist" has lived in the city at the end of Lake Geneva with his wife, the painter Christina Oiticica, for over 15 years.
08.06.2025, 15:15
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For example, the typewriter on which Coelho typed the draft of "The Alchemist" (1988) will be on display in the museum. This can be read on the website of the Paulo Coelho Foundation, on the author's Instagram account and in the Tribune de Genève at the weekend. Coelho is considered the most translated author in the world.
The museum will also focus on Coelho's admission to a psychiatric ward at the age of 17 - he left hospital at 20 - and his membership of the hippie movement in the 1960s. In the 1970s, Coelho was briefly imprisoned and tortured under the Brazilian dictatorship.
His spiritual questions led him to the Way of St. James, where he found the inspiration for his first novel "The Pilgrim of Santiago de Compostela" (1987).
His wife Christina Oiticica will exhibit his works on the top floor of the museum. The two married in Geneva and also live in Tarbes in the southwest of France.
Paulo Coelho is not only one of the best-selling authors in the world with around 20 books, he is also very popular on social networks and has millions of followers, including 30 million on Facebook. In 2021, the Swiss magazine Bilanz estimated his fortune at 500 to 600 million francs.
https://fondationpaulocoelho.com/
