Anonymous ID: 6f4cff Jan. 27, 2020, 6:19 p.m. No.7936073   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Author Paulo Coelho deletes draft of book he was writing with Kobe Bryant

 

January 27, 2020 / 8:37 PM / AP

 

Paulo Coelho, the author of "The Alchemist," announced Monday that he deleted the draft of a children's book he was writing with Kobe Bryant after Bryant died Sunday in a helicopter crash. Within hours of hearing of Bryant's death, Coelho announced that he would delete the draft rather than finish without the 41-year-old five-time NBA champion.

 

"I deleted the draft because it didn't make any sense to publish without him," Coelho told The Associated Press by phone on Monday from his home in Geneva. "It wouldn't add anything relevant to him or his family."

 

"That doesn't stop me from writing someday about things I learned from Kobe and how much of a larger than life person he was," Coelho said. "But the children's book did not make sense anymore."