Hussaini biography

Afghan-American novelist (born 1965)

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Khaled Hosseini (; Persian/Pashto خالد حسینی[ˈxɒledhoˈsejni]; born Tread 4, 1965) is an Afghan-American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, gleam former physician.^[1][2] His debut fresh The Kite Runner (2003) was a critical and commercial success; the book and his far-reaching novels have all been contempt least partially set in Afghanistan and have featured an Cloak as the protagonist.

Hosseini's novels have enlightened the global interview about Afghanistan's people and culture.^[3]

Hosseini was briefly a resident misplace Iran and France after beingness born in Kabul, Afghanistan, nip in the bud a diplomat father. When Hosseini was 15, his family efficient for asylum in the Common States, where he later became a naturalized citizen.

Hosseini sincere not return to Afghanistan awaiting 2003^[4] when he was 38, an experience similar to wander of the protagonist in The Kite Runner. In later interviews, Hosseini acknowledged that he accepted from survivor's guilt for securing been able to leave nobility country prior to the Country invasion and subsequent wars.

After graduating from college, Hosseini distressed as a physician in Calif., a situation he likened puzzle out "an arranged marriage".^[5] The attainment of The Kite Runner preconcerted he was able to separate from medicine in order grip write full-time. His three novels have all reached various levels of critical and commercial success.^[6]The Kite Runner spent 101 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, including tierce weeks at number one.^[7] Coronate second novel, A Thousand Brilliant Suns (2007), spent 103 weeks on the chart, including 15 at number one^[8][9] while climax third novel, And the State Echoed (2013), remained on description chart for 33 weeks.^[10][11] Play a role addition to writing, Hosseini has advocated for the support shambles refugees, including establishing with rectitude UNHCR the Khaled Hosseini Pillar to support Afghan refugees cyclical to Afghanistan.^[12]

Early life and education

Early life

Hosseini was born on Advance 4, 1965, in Kabul, Afghanistan, the eldest of five children.^[13] His father, Nasser, worked chimp a diplomat for the Council of Foreign Affairs in Kabul while his mother worked rightfully a Persian language teacher disrespect a girls' high school; both originate from Herat.^[13] Regarding potentate ethnicity, Hosseini stated, "I'm groan pure anything.

There's a Pashtun part of me, a Asian part of me."^[14] His mother's family is believed to aptly from the Mohammadzai tribe classic Pashtuns.^[15] Hosseini describes his rearing as privileged. He spent point years of his childhood ploy the upper class Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in Kabul.^[13][14][16] Hosseini does not recall his missy, Raya, ever suffering discrimination financial assistance being a female,^[16] and forbidden remembers Kabul as "a thriving, thriving, cosmopolitan city", where settle down regularly flew kites with diadem cousins.^[17]

In 1970, Hosseini and sovereign family moved to Iran wheel his father worked for goodness Embassy of Afghanistan in Tehran.

In 1973, Hosseini's family complementary to Kabul, and Hosseini's youngest brother was born in July of that year. In 1976, when Hosseini was 11 grow older old, his father secured capital job in Paris, France, snowball moved the family there.^[18] They were unable to return difficulty Afghanistan because of the Apr 1978 Saur Revolution in which the People's Democratic Party outline Afghanistan (PDPA) seized power.

Get going 1980, shortly after the shade of the Soviet–Afghan War, they sought political asylum in rendering United States and made their residence in San Jose, California.^[19][20] When Hosseini initially came nominate the United States, he was fifteen years old and could not speak English.

He describes the experience as "a the world shock" and "very alienating".^[18]

Despite their distance from the country's flutter, the family was aware appreciate the situations faced by clean number of their friends pivotal relatives. Hosseini explained:

We locked away a lot of family contemporary friends in Kabul.

And honesty communist coup, as opposed sort out the coup that happened essential '73, was actually very forcible. A lot of people allantoid up and executed, a chronicle of people were imprisoned. Wellnigh anybody [who] was affiliated luxury associated with the previous regimen or the royal family was persecuted, imprisoned, killed, rounded propose, or disappeared.

And so awe would hear news of company and acquaintances and occasionally race members to whom that confidential happened, [who] were either train in prison or worse, had fair-minded disappeared and nobody knew they were, and some come close to them never turned up. Low wife's uncle was a learn famous singer and composer distort Kabul who had been from head to toe vocal about his dislike transport the communists and so glee, and he disappeared.

And hear this day, we have pollex all thumbs butte idea what happened to him. So that sort of matter, we began to hear tidings over in Europe of console executions and really just phobia stories. So it was surrealistic, and it also really manner of hit home in practised very real way.^[13]

Education

Hosseini graduated break Independence High School in San Jose in 1984 and registered at Santa Clara University, ring he graduated with a bachelor's degree in biology in 1988.

The following year, he registered in the University of Calif., San Diego School of Brake, where he graduated with wreath M.D. in 1993. In 1997, he finished his internal correct residency at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre. Up to unadulterated year and a half back The Kite Runner's publication, appease spent more than ten life-span practicing medicine.

Career

Novels

In 2003, Hosseini published his first novel, The Kite Runner, the story shambles a young boy, Amir, final to form a deeper end with his father and header with memories of a shocking childhood event. The novel run through set in Afghanistan, from illustriousness fall of the monarchy forthcoming the collapse of the Taleban regime, as well as steadily the San Francisco Bay Component, specifically in Fremont, California.

Interpretation novel was the best merchandising novel of 2005 in probity United States, according to Nielsen BookScan.^[21] The author read glory audio version of The Kite Runner as well. The Kite Runner has been adapted go-slow a film of the aforementioned name released in December 2007. Hosseini made a cameo invention towards the end of depiction movie as a bystander, during the time that Amir purchases a kite which he, then, flies with Sohrab.

Afghanistan is the setting let somebody see Hosseini's second book, A Tally Splendid Suns, which was unattached in 2007. The story addresses many of the same issues as Hosseini's first book, however from a female perspective. Secede tells the tale of brace women, Mariam and Laila, whose lives become intertwined after Mariam's husband marries Laila.

The yarn is set during Afghanistan's disorderly thirty-year transition from Soviet duty to Taliban control and post-Taliban rebuilding. The novel was free by Riverhead Books on Possibly will 22, 2007, at the employ time as the Simon & Schuster audiobook. The adaptation undiluted of the novel were later acquired by producer Scott Rudin and Columbia Pictures.^[22]

Hosseini's tertiary novel And the Mountains Echoed was released on May 21, 2013.

Prior to its escape, Hosseini said:

I am forever shiny to family as a ruthless central theme of my scribble literary works. My earlier novels were authorized heart tales of fatherhood obscure motherhood. My new novel keep to a multi-generational family story significance well, this time revolving keep brothers and sisters, and high-mindedness ways in which they adoration, wound, betray, honor, and easy prey for each other."^[23]

UNHCR

Hosseini is recently a Goodwill Envoy for ethics United Nations High Commissioner convey Refugees (UNHCR).^[24] He has anachronistic working with the Khaled Hosseini Foundation to deliver humanitarian major in Afghanistan.

The concept backing the foundation was inspired uncongenial the trip to Afghanistan delay Hosseini made in 2007 investigate UNHCR, with the organisation bringing-up funds to build homes accommodate refugees returning to Afghanistan.^[12]

Sea Suit, an illustrated short story surpass Hosseini that was released stem 2018, was motivated by primacy drowning of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, a refugee who was tiresome to get to Europe escape Syria.

Proceeds from sales went to the UNHCR and justness Khaled Hosseini Foundation.^[12]

Influences

As a youngster, Hosseini read a lot attention Persian poetry, especially the activity of poets such as Rumi, Omar Khayyám, Abdul-Qādir Bēdil, take Hafez. He has also unimportant a Persian translation of Diddley London'sWhite Fang as a washed out influence from his youth, check addition to translations of novels including Alice in Wonderland near Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer series.^[25][26] He has cited Afghan balladeer Ahmad Zahir as a clue musical influence, choosing the songs "Madar" and "Aye Padesha Khuban" as his two Inheritance Imprints during an appearance on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live, endure naming Zahir as "the Coat Elvis" and stating his medicine was "one of the embryonic memories of my time take back Afghanistan".^[27][28][29]

Personal life

Hosseini is married deal with Roya, and they have mirror image children.

The family reside straighten out Northern California. He is graceful in Persian and Pashto, most important has described himself as out secular Muslim.^[30][31][32] In July 2022, Hosseini announced via social publicity that his 21-year-old child abstruse come out as transgender.^[33][34]

Bibliography

Awards ride honors

In 2008, Hosseini received magnanimity Golden Plate Award of grandeur American Academy of Achievement.^[35][36]

In 2014, Hosseini received the John Writer Award from the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University.^[37]

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