Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-born American novelist, former physician, and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, best known for his novels The Kite Runner (2003), A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007), and And the Mountains Echoed (2013), which vividly depict Afghan life and have sold over 40 million copies worldwide[1][2][5]. Born in Kabul to a diplomat father and teacher mother, his family moved to Paris in 1976 and then to California in 1980 after the Soviet invasion, seeking political asylum[1][2]. He studied biology at Santa Clara University, earned a medical degree from UC San Diego in 1993, practiced as an internist until 2004, and founded the Khaled Hosseini Foundation to aid Afghanistan[2][5].

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