WRITER

Khaled Hosseini

1965 - Today

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Khaled Hosseini (;Persian/Pashto خالد حسینی [ˈxɒled hoˈsejni]; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Khaled Hosseini has received more than 3,034,914 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Khaled Hosseini is the 1,323rd most popular writer (down from 954th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 33rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Afghan Writer.

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Notable Works

A Thousand Splendid Suns
desertion, Sufism, Pashhtuns
After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them—in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul—they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love. ([source][1]) [1]: https://khaledhosseini.com/books/a-thousand-splendid-suns/
2007
The Kite Runner. Graphic Novel
nyt:paperback_graphic_books=2011-09-03, Male friendship, Betrayal
2011
The Kite Runner
Bacha bazi, Soviet-Afghan war, Mullahs
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies. A sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic. ([source][1]) [1]: https://khaledhosseini.com/books/the-kite-runner/
2003
And the mountains echoed
Community life, Interpersonal relations, Families
Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named, is everything. What happens to them-and the large and small manners in which it echoes through the lives of so many other people-is proof of the moral complexity of life. This story begins in 1952 Afghanistan with two motherless siblings and moves through complex relationships and generations to the United States, Paris, and Greece, weaving a story of commitment, love, honor, and sacrifice. The plot contains violence.
2013
Y las montañas hablaron
2013
The Kite Runner. Graphic Novel
nyt:paperback_graphic_books=2011-09-03, Male friendship, Betrayal
2011
A Thousand Splendid Suns
2007
Sea Prayer
Fiction, Refugees, Fathers and sons
Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
2018
And the Mountains Echoed
Community life, Interpersonal relations, Families
Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named, is everything. What happens to them-and the large and small manners in which it echoes through the lives of so many other people-is proof of the moral complexity of life. This story begins in 1952 Afghanistan with two motherless siblings and moves through complex relationships and generations to the United States, Paris, and Greece, weaving a story of commitment, love, honor, and sacrifice. The plot contains violence.
2013
A Thousand Splendid Suns
desertion, Sufism, Pashhtuns
After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them—in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul—they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love. ([source][1]) [1]: https://khaledhosseini.com/books/a-thousand-splendid-suns/
2007
The Kite Runner
New York Times bestseller, nyt:trade_fiction_paperback=2008-10-26, In library
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies. A sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic. ([source][1]) [1]: https://khaledhosseini.com/books/the-kite-runner/
2003

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Khaled Hosseini ranks 1,323 out of 7,302. Before him are Rasul Gamzatov, Zachris Topelius, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, Khaqani, Anthony Bourdain, and Lee Child. After him are Antoine-Henri Jomini, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Blaise de Vigenère, Odo of Cluny, Artemidorus, and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Khaled Hosseini ranks 33. Before him are Oleksandr Syrskyi, Brooke Shields, Ange Postecoglou, Viola Davis, Slash, and Shamil Basayev. After him are Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, Diane Lane, Michael Bay, Moby, Mick Foley, and Aldair.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Khaled Hosseini ranks 43 out of 177. Before him are Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925), Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006), Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954), Menander I (-190), Ibn al-Rawandi (827), and Abu Sa'id Mirza (1424). After him are Mas'ud I of Ghazni (998), Haji Mohammad Chamkani (1947), Tahir ibn Husayn (776), Sher Ali Khan (1825), Abdul Rahim Hatif (1926), and Abdul Ghani Baradar (1968).

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Among WRITERS In Afghanistan

Among writers born in Afghanistan, Khaled Hosseini ranks 3. Before him are Rumi (1207), and Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441). After him are Sanai (1080), Rabia Balkhi (1000), Gulbadan Begum (1523), Unsuri (980), Farrukhi Sistani (980), Atiq Rahimi (1962), Nadia Anjuman (1981), Nadia Ghulam (1985), and Niloofar Rahmani (1992).

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