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    Khaled Hosseini

    Goodreads Author


    Born

    in Kabul, Afghanistan

    March 04, 1965


    Website

    http://www.khaledhosseini.com/


    Genre

    Literature & Fiction


    Member Since

    April 2012


    URL

    https://www.goodreads.com/khaledhosseini


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    Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. In 1970 Hosseini and his family moved to Iran where his father worked for the Embassy of Afghanistan in Tehran. In 1973 Hosseini's family returned to Kabul, and Hosseini's youngest brother was born in July of that year.
    In 1976, when Hosseini was 11 years old, Hosseini's father obtained a job in Paris, France, and moved the family there. They were unable to return to Afghanistan because of the Saur Revolution in which the PDPA communist party seized power through a bloody coup in April 1978. Instead, a year after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in 1980 they sought political asylum in the United States and made their residence in San Jose, California.
    Hosseini graduated

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    Khaled Hosseini, M.D.

    Your English is virtually unaccented and perfectly fluent, and you write in English. Where did that fluency come from?

    Khaled Hosseini: I think part of it is youth.  Farsi was my first language. I learned French when I was eleven, and we lived in France for about four years, so that became my second language. And then we moved to the States, and I was 15 at that time, so I began to pick up English. Actually, I picked up English pretty quickly, probably within a year I was pretty fluent. And part of it is that you’re still very pliable mentally at 14, 15 years old. You still are not fully rooted in that, so you still have that ability to absorb things in a kind of a childlike way. And so I picked up the language pretty quickly. And I think part of it also is that I always had kind of an ease with foreign languages. I always had an ear for it and seemed to pick it up more quickly than some of my friends and fellow students. So I think it was a combinati

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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 Afghan 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 asylum 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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