Paulo Coelho, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947, is one of the bestselling and most influential authors in the world.
The Alchemist,
The Valkyries, Brida,
The Fifth Mountain, Eleven Minutes,
The Zahir,
The Witch of Portobello, Veronika Decides to Die, The Winner Stands Alone,
Aleph,
Adultery, and
Hippie, among others, have sold over 320 million copies worldwide.
Edoardo Ballerini is a two-time winner of the Audio Publisher Association’s Best Male Narrator Award, a two-time winner of Society of Voice Arts Awards, and was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 2019.
Margaret Jull Costa
has been translating Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American fiction for over twenty years. She won the translator’s portion of the 1997 IMPAC Award for
Javier Marías’ Heart So White and the
2006 Premio Valle-Inclán for her translation of the first volume of his trilogy
Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear.