Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini ( Persian خالد حسینی/ Ḫālid Ḥusaynī ; * March 4, 1965 in Kabul , Afghanistan ) is an American writer and doctor of Tajik and Pashtun descent.
Life
Hosseini's father was employed by the Afghan Foreign Ministry, and his mother taught Persian and history at a girls' high school . Khaled Hosseini is the oldest of five children. From 1970 to 1973 the family lived in Tehran ( Iran ). In 1976, three years before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, she moved to Paris , where her father got a job in the Afghan embassy.
The family was originally supposed to return to Kabul after four years . However, the Soviet intervention in their home country Afghanistan prompted them to apply for political asylum in the USA , which the Hosseinis were granted in 1980. The family settled in San José, California . There she lived for some time on state support because she had lost her property in Afghanistan.
Hosseini graduated from high school in 1984 and then went to Santa Clara University to study biology, from which he graduated in 1988 with a bachelor's degree. In the following years he studied at the medical school of the University of California ( San Diego ). There he received his doctorate in medicine in 1993 . In 1996, Hosseini completed his specialist training as an internist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles . He has been working as an internist since 1996 .
Khaled Hosseini had already been interested in literature as a child and had also written himself. In 2003 his first novel Kite Runner appeared , which was made into a film in 2007 under the title The Kite Runner (German title Kite Runner ).
Until the end of 2005, Hosseini interrupted his work as a doctor in order to be able to write on his second book A Thousand Splendid Suns . The German edition appeared in August 2007 under the title Thousand Radiant Suns . The action takes place, as in the Kite Runner , in Afghanistan. The third novel was published in May 2013, And the Mountains Echoed , which was published in German under the title Traumsammler in September 2013.
Khaled Hosseini is married and has two children.
Works
- Kite runner . Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8270-0516-7 .
- A thousand shining suns . Bloomsbury, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8270-0671-4 .
- Dream collector . S. Fischer, 2013. ISBN 978-3-10-032910-3 . As Fischer-Taschenbuch 2014, ISBN 978-3-596-19820-7 (Hardcover: No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from November 4 to 24, 2013 )
- as a graphic novel
- Kite Runner , illustrated by Fabio Celoni and Mirka Andolfo . Riverhead Books, New York City, USA 2011, ISBN 978-1-594485473 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Khaled Hosseini in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website of Khaled Hosseini
- Khaled Hosseini at Bloomsbury Verlag
- Khaled Hosseini at Berlin Verlag
- Film review of the film The Kite Runner
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kirsten Tranter: Remaking home . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , June 1, 2013. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hosseini, Khaled |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Afghan-American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kabul , Afghanistan |