Paulo Coelho & News Presenter Cherno Jobatey

Brazilian bestseller author Paulo Coelho talks to news presenter Cherno Jobatey his experiences that furnish the core of the famed novel „Veronica decides to die”.

Paulo Coelho’s personal life sounds like a novel.  News presenter Cherno Jobatey always had the impression that Coelho is just writing down his life. So Cherno Jobatey very much wants to know how the Brazilian bestseller author got the idea for his novel „Veronica decides to die?” After traveling the world as a young hippie, Paulo Coelho tries to make it as a theater and screenplay author, while taking many drugs. For his conservative parents it is clear that Paolo Coelho has gone completely mad. They send Paulo Coelho to a psychiatric institution where he is the recipient of electric shock treatments. News presenter Cherno Jobatey learns that these experiences furnish the core of the famed novel „Veronica decides to die”.