How old is khaled hosseini

In , The Kite Runner was adapted to screen bearing the same title as the novel. Hosseini made a brief appearance in a scene towards the end of the movie.

It was released in With positive reviews from leading sources, the novel has so far been published in 60 countries and set to be made into a movie by producer Scott Rudin and Columbia Pictures who have acquired its rights.

His activism for a better Afghanistan is proof of his love for the country. His official website also contains information and links to many aid organizations helping Afghanistan in addition to The Khaled Hosseini Foundation which provides humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan.

My dad was a diplomat and my mum vice-principal of a high school and now she's a waitress at Denny's, working the graveyard shift, and my dad is a driving instructor. He adds: "There's nothing wrong with those things, but it was a regauging of their place in life. In Kabul they knew everybody, but in California nobody cared. The family lived on welfare and, determined to ensure financial security, Hosseini resolved to become a doctor.

He graduated from the University of California in and then completed his residency in internal medicine at Los Angeles's Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in One of the new novel's most powerful sections includes an Afghan-American doctor whose compassion is tested by a trip to his homeland. Hosseini, who says he doesn't miss medicine one bit, admits that the character is deeply autobiographical. I don't want to act the ugly, entitled Afghan-American and go around backslapping people, pretending I'm one of them, full of bonhomie.

That's disingenuous. I wasn't here when those guys were getting blown to pieces, so I'm not going to act like I was now that things are better. And Hosseini, of course, isn't really an average Afghan-American but a celebrity. Sales of The Kite Runner began snowballing when the book came out in paperback, and it spent weeks on the US bestsellers list. In it was made into a film ; the movie adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns is due in In the past decade he has enjoyed several moments of disbelief.

The first, he recalls, came on a flight when he realised the woman beside him was reading The Kite Runner. And I couldn't believe it. I didn't do anything, and she never said anything, but I noticed that she was really into it. The second time: "I was watching TV and I flipped the channels just in time to catch myself as the answer to a Jeopardy! So that was like: OK, people are reading my book. But even while patients of his were coming in just to have their copies signed, he continued to work at the clinic for a year and a half.

How long did it take him to think of himself as a writer? And even now I'm a little …" he trails off, with a quiet laugh. I can't take it seriously. It's just like, oh get over yourself, you know?

That kind of humility has no doubt helped his status as book-club favourite — particularly, it seems, among women. That said, I'm always thrilled and feel a great sense of pride when I see a year-old varsity wrestler at a high school and he says, 'Man, I love your book and I wanna read more! I ask him what is the most common thing fans tell him. I'm touched, but I don't want to be the guy that writes these books that make people cry.

It presupposes a kind of calculated effort to extract a specific emotion out of the reader and that's not the way I work. You mentioned the Farsi language. Could you explain for us what languages are spoken in Afghanistan and which ones you grew up with? Khaled Hosseini: Afghanistan is a kaleidoscope of different ethnicities, tribes, sub-tribes, families and so on.

Every region has its own dialect and its own local culture. So there are many, many different dialects, but there are two main languages.