Khaled Hosseini
Born: March 04, 1965 – Kabul, Kabul Province, Afghanistan
Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan American novelist whose fiction explores war, exile, family, and moral responsibility, often through Afghan lives. He is best known for The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. His books have sold millions worldwide, been widely translated, and brought global attention to Afghan experiences.
Biography & Author's Journey
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul in 1965, the son of an Afghan diplomat and a mother who taught Farsi and history. When his family moved to Paris in 1976, they expected the relocation to be temporary, but the communist coup in Afghanistan and the Soviet invasion made return impossible. The family was granted political asylum in the United States and settled in San Jose in September 1980. Hosseini finished high school there, earned a biology degree from Santa Clara University, received his medical degree from the University of California, San Diego, and completed a residency at Cedars-Sinai before practicing internal medicine from 1996 to 2004. The major turning point came in March 2001, when he began writing The Kite Runner before dawn while still seeing patients, turning exile, memory, and childhood Afghanistan into fiction. ((https://khaledhosseini.com/bio/))
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"In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini gives us a vivid and engaging story"
— The New York Times
"The Kite Runner is the shattering first novel by Khaled Hosseini"
— The Guardian
"Hosseini again illuminates the culture and struggles of the Afghan people"
— Chicago Tribune
"In Mariam and Laila, Hosseini has created two enormously winning female characters"
— Houston Chronicle
"Hosseini extrudes it into an intimate account of family and friendship, betrayal and salvation"
— The Washington Post
"Hosseini's tale is a powerful, harrowing depiction of Afghanistan"
— Publishers Weekly
"Hosseini succeeds in carrying readers along because he understands the power of emotion as few other popular writers do"
— The New York Times Sunday Book Review
"The Kite Runner, Hosseini's first novel, is more than just good writing"
— The Hartford Courant
"What keeps this novel vivid and compelling are Hosseini's eye for the textures of daily life"
— Los Angeles Times
"Hosseini's bewitching narrative captures the intimate details of life in a world where it's a struggle to survive"
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