Khaled hosseini nationality american
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Khaled Hosseini born 4 March 1965 is an Afghan-American novelist and UNHCR goodwill ambassador. His debut novel The Kite Runner (2003) was a critical and commercial success. Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, to a diplomat father, Hosseini spent some time living in Iran and France. When Hosseini was 15, his family applied for asylum in the United States, where he later became a naturalized citizen. Hosseini did not return to Afghanistan until 2003 when he was 38.
After graduating from college, Hosseini worked as a physician in California, a situation he likened to "an arranged marriage". The success of The Kite Runner meant he was able to retire from medicine in order to write full-time. His three novels have all reached various levels of critical and commercial success. The Kite Runner spent 101 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, including three weeks at number one. His second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007), spent 103 weeks on the chart, including 15 at numb
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Khaled Hosseini
Afghan-American novelist (born 1965)
For other people with similar names, see Khalid Hussain (disambiguation).
Khaled Hosseini (; Persian/Pashto خالد حسینی[ˈxɒledhoˈsejni]; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician.[1][2] His debut novel The Kite Runner (2003) was a critical and commercial success; the book and his subsequent novels have all been at least partially set in Afghanistan and have featured an person från afghanistan as the protagonist. Hosseini's novels have spread awareness about Afghanistan's people and culture.[3]
Hosseini was briefly a resident of Iran and France after being born in Kabul, Afghanistan, to a diplomat father. When Hosseini was 15, his family applied for asyl in the United States, where he later became a naturalized citizen. Hosseini did not return to Afghanistan until 2003[4] when he was 38, an experience similar to that of the protagoni
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Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat in the Afghan utländsk Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and history at a high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then their homeland had witnessed a bloody communist coup and the invasion of the Soviet Army. The Hosseinis sought and were granted political asyl in the United States, and in September 1980 moved to San Jose, California. Hosseini graduated from high school in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1988. The following year he entered the University of California, San Diego, School of medicin, where he earned a medical degree in 1993. He completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai medical center in Los Angeles and was a practicing internist between 1996 and 2004.
In March 2001,