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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 2,932,188 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Khaled Hosseini is the 955th most popular writer (up from 1,338th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 38th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Afghan Writer.

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  • 2.9M

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  • 61.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Khaled Hosseini ranks 955 out of 5,755. Before him are Mirza Fatali Akhundov, Benito Pérez Galdós, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and Eleanor H. Porter. After him are Abdulrazak Gurnah, Juan Antonio Villacañas, E. M. Forster, Garcilaso de la Vega, Ernst Hanfstaengl, and Sugawara no Michizane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Khaled Hosseini ranks 18. Before him are Charlie Sheen, Dr. Dre, Björk, Sarah Jessica Parker, Brooke Shields, and Gong Li. After him are Dragan Stojković, Rodney King, Laurent Blanc, José Luis Chilavert, Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, and Shamil Basayev.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Khaled Hosseini ranks 33 out of 145. Before him are Mohammad Najibullah (1947), Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād (1450), Ashraf Ghani (1949), Nur Jahan (1577), Sultan Husayn Bayqara (1438), and Moinuddin Chishti (1142). After him are Menander I (-190), Hibatullah Akhundzada (1961), Heracles of Macedon (-327), Abu Maʿshar (787), Khalil Sultan (1384), and Inayatullah Khan (1888).

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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), Niloofar Rahmani (1992), and Fatima Bhutto (1982).

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