Khaled Hosseini
Birthday:
4 March 1965, Kabul, Afghanistan
Khaled Hosseini was born on March 4, 1965 in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is a writer and actor, known for The Kite Runner (2007), A Thousand Splendid Suns and Marc Forster - Der Weg zu 007 (2008).
[on his novel 'And the Mountains Echoes'] Fiction accomplishes things that the writer probably doesn't intend - it has a life and a signific...Show more »
[on his novel 'And the Mountains Echoes'] Fiction accomplishes things that the writer probably doesn't intend - it has a life and a significance beyond what the writer wanted. I could say I write my books so that people understand Afghanistan better, but it wouldn't be true. I write because I love these characters. A single image began this book: a man walking across the desert, pulling a Red Radio wagon behind him with a little girl inside and a boy following them. I had to figure out who these people were and what was happening. Show less «
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