![]() ![]() His three novels have all reached various levels of critical and commercial success. The success of The Kite Runner meant he was able to retire from medicine in order to write full-time. ![]() ![]() In later interviews, Hosseini admitted to feeling survivor's guilt for having been able to leave the country prior to the Soviet invasion and subsequent wars.Īfter graduating from college, Hosseini worked as a physician in California, a situation he likened to "an arranged marriage". Hosseini did not return to Afghanistan until 2003 when he was 38, an experience similar to that of the protagonist in The Kite Runner. When Hosseini was 15, his family applied for asylum in the United States, where he later became a naturalized citizen. 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.īorn in Kabul, Afghanistan, to a diplomat father, Hosseini spent some time living in Iran and France. ![]() Khaled Hosseini ( / ˈ h ɑː l ɛ d h oʊ ˈ s eɪ n i/ Persian/Pashto خالد حسینی born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician. Recorded February 2014 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Bookclub ![]()
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