Khaled Hosseini Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Khaled Hosseini (Persian: ???? ?????? [?x?led ho?sejni]; /?h??l?d ho??se?ni/; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, an occupation that he likens to "an arranged marriage" for him. He has published three novels, most notably his 2003 debut The Kite Runner, all of which are at least partially set in Afghanistan and feature an Afghan as the protagonist. Following the success of The Kite Runner, he decided to stop practicing medicine and became a full-time writer.Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. His father worked as a diplomat, and when Hosseini was 11 years old, the family moved to France; four years later, they applied for asylum in the United States, where he later became a citizen. Hosseini did not return to Afghanistan until 2003 at the age of 38, where he "felt like a tourist in [his] own country". In interviews about the experience, he admitted to sometimes feeling survivor's guilt for having been able to leave the country before the Soviet invasion and subsequent wars.All three of his novels became bestsellers, with The Kite Runner spending 101 weeks on the bestseller list (number one for four of those weeks) as a paperback. In 2007, The Kite Runner was followed by A Thousand Splendid Suns, which has spent 21 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list for paperback fiction and 49 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction (number one for 15 of those weeks). The two novels have sold more than 38 million copies internationally.
Full Name
Khaled Hosseini
Net Worth
$5 million
Date Of Birth
March 4, 1965
Place Of Birth
Kabul, Afghanistan
Profession
Author, Novelist, Physician
Education
Santa Clara University, University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego School of Medicine, Independence High School
Spouse
Roya Hosseini
Children
Harris Hosseini, Farah Hosseini
Parents
Nasser Hosseini
Siblings
Raya Hosseini
Nicknames
Khaled Hosseini, Hosseini, Khaled, خالد حسینی
Facebook
Twitter
IMDB
Awards
Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction
Nominations
Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction
Movies
The Kite Runner
Star Sign
Pisces
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[on his novel 'And the Mountains Echoes'] Fiction accomplishes things that the writer probably doesn't intend - it has a life and a significance beyond what the writer wanted. I could say I write my books so that people understand Afghanistan better, but it wouldn't be true. I write because I love these characters. A single image began this book: a man walking across the desert, pulling a Red Radio wagon behind him with a little girl inside and a boy following them. I had to figure out who these people were and what was happening.
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Fact
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Afghan novelist, best known for his bestselling debut "The Kite Runner" (2003).
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His father worked for the Afghanistan Foreign Ministery, his mother was a teacher.
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Completed his residency in internal medicine at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles (1993).
