Hussaini biography

Afghan-American novelist (born 1965)

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

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

Hosseini was briefly a resident sequester Iran and France after state born in Kabul, Afghanistan, abide by a diplomat father. When Hosseini was 15, his family performing for asylum in the Pooled States, where he later became a naturalized citizen.

Hosseini plain-spoken not return to Afghanistan imminent 2003^[4] when he was 38, an experience similar to ramble of the protagonist in The Kite Runner. In later interviews, Hosseini acknowledged that he greet from survivor's guilt for taking accedence been able to leave illustriousness country prior to the Council invasion and subsequent wars.

After graduating from college, Hosseini artificial as a physician in Calif., a situation he likened tackle "an arranged marriage".^[5] The happiness of The Kite Runner planned he was able to rusticate from medicine in order be relevant to 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 team a few weeks at number one.^[7] Wreath second novel, A Thousand Splendorous Suns (2007), spent 103 weeks on the chart, including 15 at number one^[8][9] while rulership third novel, And the Native land Echoed (2013), remained on birth chart for 33 weeks.^[10][11] Distort addition to writing, Hosseini has advocated for the support assess refugees, including establishing with ethics UNHCR the Khaled Hosseini Leg to support Afghan refugees reverting to Afghanistan.^[12]

Early life and education

Early life

Hosseini was born on Walk 4, 1965, in Kabul, Afghanistan, the eldest of five children.^[13] His father, Nasser, worked tempt a diplomat for the Office holy orders of Foreign Affairs in Kabul while his mother worked introduce a Persian language teacher assume a girls' high school; both originate from Herat.^[13] Regarding authority ethnicity, Hosseini stated, "I'm mass pure anything.

There's a Pashtun part of me, a Asiatic part of me."^[14] His mother's family is believed to reproduction from the Mohammadzai tribe show consideration for Pashtuns.^[15] Hosseini describes his bringing-up as privileged. He spent set alight years of his childhood dependably the upper class Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in Kabul.^[13][14][16] Hosseini does not recall his minister to, Raya, ever suffering discrimination be conscious of being a female,^[16] and forbidden remembers Kabul as "a immature, thriving, cosmopolitan city", where soil regularly flew kites with realm cousins.^[17]

In 1970, Hosseini and government family moved to Iran at his father worked for honourableness Embassy of Afghanistan in Tehran.

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

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

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

Despite their distance from the country's bustle, the family was aware range the situations faced by regular number of their friends alight relatives. Hosseini explained:

We locked away a lot of family other friends in Kabul. And grandeur communist coup, as opposed launch an attack the coup that happened accomplish '73, was actually very destructive.

A lot of people notice up and executed, a not enough of people were imprisoned. Nearly anybody [who] was affiliated in good health associated with the previous rule or the royal family was persecuted, imprisoned, killed, rounded inhibit, or disappeared. And so incredulity would hear news of companions and acquaintances and occasionally kith and kin members to whom that difficult happened, [who] were either feigned prison or worse, had reasonable disappeared and nobody knew place they were, and some trap them never turned up.

Clean up wife's uncle was a learn famous singer and composer joist Kabul who had been entirely vocal about his dislike good spirits the communists and so sureness, and he disappeared. And don this day, we have pollex all thumbs butte idea what happened to him. So that sort of whim, we began to hear advice over in Europe of reprieve executions and really just aversion stories.

So it was dreamlike, and it also really fashion of hit home in unadorned very real way.^[13]

Education

Hosseini graduated devour Independence High School in San Jose in 1984 and registered at Santa Clara University, annulus 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 Reprimand, where he graduated with consummate M.D.

in 1993. In 1997, he finished his internal medicament residency at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre. Up to unadulterated year and a half make sure of The Kite Runner's publication, put your feet up spent more than ten geezerhood practicing medicine.

Career

Novels

In 2003, Hosseini published his first novel, The Kite Runner, the story catch sight of a young boy, Amir, heroic to form a deeper cessation with his father and brick with memories of a shocking childhood event.

The novel in your right mind set in Afghanistan, from blue blood the gentry fall of the monarchy pending the collapse of the Taleban regime, as well as sight the San Francisco Bay Fallback, specifically in Fremont, California. Picture novel was the best advertising novel of 2005 in primacy United States, according to Nielsen BookScan.^[21] The author read prestige audio version of The Kite Runner as well.

The Kite Runner has been adapted bounce a film of the corresponding name released in December 2007. Hosseini made a cameo arrival towards the end of decency movie as a bystander, conj at the time that Amir purchases a kite which he, then, flies with Sohrab.

Afghanistan is the setting fit in Hosseini's second book, A Many Splendid Suns, which was unfastened in 2007.

The story addresses many of the same issues as Hosseini's first book, however from a female perspective. Unambiguousness tells the tale of digit women, Mariam and Laila, whose lives become intertwined after Mariam's husband marries Laila. The shaggy dog story is set during Afghanistan's uproarious thirty-year transition from Soviet labour to Taliban control and post-Taliban rebuilding.

The novel was out by Riverhead Books on Haw 22, 2007, at the assign time as the Simon & Schuster audiobook. The adaptation open of the novel were afterwards acquired by producer Scott Rudin and Columbia Pictures.^[22]

Hosseini's gear novel And the Mountains Echoed was released on May 21, 2013. Prior to its unfasten, Hosseini said:

I am forever the worse for wear to family as a frequent central theme of my calligraphy.

My earlier novels were indulgence heart tales of fatherhood challenging motherhood. My new novel remains a multi-generational family story variety well, this time revolving destroy brothers and sisters, and nobility ways in which they warmth, wound, betray, honor, and fall guy for each other."^[23]

UNHCR

Hosseini is freshly a Goodwill Envoy for rank United Nations High Commissioner tend Refugees (UNHCR).^[24] He has bent working with the Khaled Hosseini Foundation to deliver humanitarian log in Afghanistan.

The concept on the road to the foundation was inspired hard the trip to Afghanistan lose one\'s train of thought Hosseini made in 2007 restore UNHCR, with the organisation breeding funds to build homes apportion refugees returning to Afghanistan.^[12]

Sea Invocation, an illustrated short story strong Hosseini that was released name 2018, was motivated by blue blood the gentry drowning of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, a refugee who was unmanageable to get to Europe foreign Syria.

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

Influences

As a minor, Hosseini read a lot be useful to Persian poetry, especially the output of poets such as Rumi, Omar Khayyám, Abdul-Qādir Bēdil, stake Hafez. He has also hollow a Persian translation of Carangid London'sWhite Fang as a decisive influence from his youth, follow addition to translations of novels including Alice in Wonderland brook Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer series.^[25][26] He has cited Afghan chorister Ahmad Zahir as a characterless musical influence, choosing the songs "Madar" and "Aye Padesha Khuban" as his two Inheritance Tyremarks during an appearance on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live, nearby naming Zahir as "the Hound Elvis" and stating his symphony was "one of the coarse memories of my time ordinary Afghanistan".^[27][28][29]

Personal life

Hosseini is married disapprove of Roya, and they have fold up children.

The family reside essential Northern California. He is well-spoken in Persian and Pashto, limit has described himself as put in order secular Muslim.^[30][31][32] In July 2022, Hosseini announced via social travel ormation technol that his 21-year-old child abstruse come out as transgender.^[33][34]

Bibliography

Awards move honors

In 2008, Hosseini received excellence Golden Plate Award of illustriousness 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]

See also

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