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Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed.
Khaled Hosseini (/ ˈ h ɑː l ɛ d h oʊ ˈ s eɪ n i /;Persian/Pashto خالد حسینی [ˈxɒled hoˈsejni]; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician.
Jun 7, 2024 · Khaled Hosseini (b. 1965) is an Afghan-born American novelist who was known for his vivid depictions of Afghanistan, most notable in The Kite Runner (2003). His other books included A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007), And the Mountains Echoed (2013), and Sea Prayer (2018).
Today, Khaled Hosseini is one of the most recognized and bestselling authors in the world. His books, The Kite Runner , A Thousand Splendid Suns , and And the Mountains Echoed , have been published in over seventy countries and sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.
Sep 14, 2022 · In the U.S., Khaled Hosseini became a successful physician, but he longed to tell the world something of the life he knew before his country was consumed by war. He rose at four o'clock every morning to work on The Kite Runner before a full day of seeing patients.
Khaled Hosseini. Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. In 1970 Hosseini and his family moved to Iran where his father worked for the Embassy of Afghanistan in Tehran. In 1973 Hosseini's family returned to Kabul, and Hosseini's youngest brother was born in July of that year.
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed.
Jun 21, 2012 · Novelist Khaled Hosseini came to the United States as a 15-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who knew only a few words of English. Today, he is a doctor, a United Nations goodwill...
Oct 3, 2023 · Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed.
May 19, 2013 · An epic tale set in Afghanistan, the book sold more than 7 million copies in the U.S. and catapulted the author, Khaled Hosseini, onto the global literary stage.
