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Khaled Hosseini was born on March 4, in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan as the oldest of five children. His father worked for the Afghan Foreign Ministry as a diplomat, and his mother was a high school teacher of Farsi and history. When he was five years old, his family moved from Kabul to Tehran, Iran. They returned to Kabul in the historic year of , when Afghanistan became a republic. In , his family followed his father to Paris. After the PDPA (the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan) seized control of the government in and the Soviets occupied Afghanistan shortly thereafter, the Hosseini family decided to seek political asylum in the United States instead of returning to Kabul. They moved to San Jose, California, where Hosseini graduated from high school. He attended Santa Clara University and earned a degree in biology.
After college, Hosseini decided to become a physician. He attended the University of California-San Diego's School of Medicine, where he completed his M.D. in He served his medical residency at the well-respected Cedars-Sinai hospital of Los Angeles and became an internist. Ho
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Your English is virtually unaccented and perfectly fluent, and you write in English. Where did that fluency come from?
Khaled Hosseini: I think part of it is youth. Farsi was my first language. I learned French when I was eleven, and we lived in France for about four years, so that became my second language. And then we moved to the States, and I was 15 at that time, so I began to pick up English. Actually, I picked up English pretty quickly, probably within a year I was pretty fluent. And part of it is that you&#;re still very pliable mentally at 14, 15 years old. You still are not fully rooted in that, so you still have that ability to absorb things in a kind of a childlike way. And so I picked up the language pretty quickly. And I think part of it also is that I always had kind of an ease with foreign languages. I always had an ear for it and seemed to pick it up more quickly than some of my friends and fellow students. So I think it was a combination of both things.
As a teenager in America, you really have to learn the idiom, you have to learn the slang fast so you can fit in, right?
Khaled Hosseini: Fitting in in the U.S. when we first moved
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Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in His father was a diplomat in the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and history at a high school in Kabul. In , the Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in , but by then their homeland had witnessed a bloody communist coup and the invasion of the Soviet Army. The Hosseinis sought and were granted political asylum in the United States, and in September moved to San Jose, California. Hosseini graduated from high school in and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in The following year he entered the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned a medical degree in He completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai medical center in Los Angeles and was a practicing internist between and
In March , while practicing medicine, Hosseini began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner, which was published by Riverhead Books in That debut went on to launch one of the biggest literary careers of our time. Today, Khaled Hosseini is one of the most
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