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Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini (b. March 4, 1965) is and Afghan American author. Born in Kabul in a family of five children, where is mother taught Farsi and history in high school and his father work for the embassy. His family moved to Paris in 1976, where his father worked at a diplomatic post. Though scheduled to return to Afghanistan in 1980, the family was wary of the impact of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and requested political asylum in the United States.

He graduated from the School of Medicine at the University of California San Diego in 1993 where he worked as an internist for Kaiser. Currently resides in San Jose, California with his wife, Roya and his two children (a boy and a girl, Haris and Farah).

In 2001, he began working on his first novel, The Kite Runner about life in Afghanistan from the fall of the monarchy until the collapse of the Taliban regime. The novel derives its name from the Afghan custom of battle of kites. Hosseini drew from his own life experiences in writing the book Taking only a two day seminar called “How to Get Your Novel Published”, he wrote this novel in the mornings between 5 am and 8 am while his family slept. Published in 2003, it became an instant success making this the first book to be written in English by an Afghan.

Riverhead Books will publish Khaled Hosseini’s next novel about Afghanistan, Dreaming Titanic City, in the summer of 2006,

Bibliography

Adair, Lara. “Success made easy – or so it seems.” San Francisco Chronicle. Sunday, June 8, 2003.

Conlogue, Ray. “Afghanistan’s next chapter.” The Globe and Mail. Thursday, June 12, 2003.

Nhu, T.T. “Seeing Afghanistan form afar”  The Mercury News. June 21, 2003.