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Khaled Hosseini or Khalid Husseini is an Afghan and 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. Hosseini's novels have spread awareness about Afghanistan's people…
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Born 4 March 1965 · Q193116
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Mariam is never very far, she is here, in these walls they've repainted, in the trees they've planted, in the blankets that keep the children warm, in these pillows and books and pencils. She is in the children's laughter. She is in the verses Aziza recites and in the prayers she mutters when she bows westward. But, mostly, Miriam is in Laila's own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2009).
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“Mariam is never very far, she is here, in these walls they've repainted, in the trees they've planted, in the blankets that keep the children warm, in these pillows and books and pencils. She is in the children's laughter. She is in the verses Aziza recites and in the prayers she mutters when she bows westward. But, mostly, Miriam is in Laila's own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.”
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Yahoo: Author Khaled Hosseini praises 'brilliant' daughter for coming out as transgender
CNN: ‘Kite Runner’ author Khaled Hosseini says his daughter has come out as transgender – and he’s ‘never been prouder’
Publishers Weekly: Books by Khaled Hosseini and Complete Book Reviews
Published “Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019” in Journal of the American College of Cardiology — cited 10,312 times.
Published “Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 8,053 times.
Published “Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 5,524 times.
Published “Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” in The Lancet Neurology — cited 4,152 times.
Publishers Weekly: Riverhead Announces New Book by Khaled Hosseini
Was motivated by the drowning of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, a refugee who was trying to get to Europe from Syria
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Published “Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 6,199 times.
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,011 times.
Hosseini received the John Steinbeck Award from the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University
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Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2009).
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Awarded Humo's Gouden Bladwijzer (2008).
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Hosseini received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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At the same time as the Simon & Schuster audiobook
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With UNHCR, with the organisation raising funds to build homes for refugees returning to Afghanistan
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“Błędem byłoby powiedzieć, że Sohrab był cichy. Cisza to spokój. Cisza to przykręcenie życiu regulatora z napisem Głośność. Milczenie to całkowite wciśnięcie wyłącznika. Wyłączenie się z życia. Z wszystkiego.”
“Powiedziała mi: „Tak bardzo się boję?” Zapytałem: „Czego?” A ona: „Bo jestem tak bardzo szczęśliwa. Takie szczęście jest aż przerażające”. Zapytałem ją, dlaczego tak uważa. Odpowiedziała: „Bo takie szczęście przytrafia się tylko wtedy, gdy zaraz ma się coś utracić.”
“(…) ratując go od pewnej zguby i dając mu w zamian zgubną niepewność.”
Hosseini published his first novel, The Kite Runner, the story of a young boy, Amir, struggling to form a deeper connection with his father and coping with memories of a traumatic childhood event
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Finished his internal medicine residency at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre
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And enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in biology in 1988
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Shortly after the start of the Soviet–Afghan War, they sought political asylum in the United States and made their residence in San Jose, California
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When Hosseini was 11 years old, his father secured a job in Paris, France, and moved the family there
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Hosseini's family returned to Kabul, and Hosseini's youngest brother was born in July of that year
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Hosseini and his family moved to Iran where his father worked for the Embassy of Afghanistan in Tehran
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Born 1965-03-04.
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In Kabul, Afghanistan, the eldest of five children
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