Khaled Hosseini
Autor(a) de The Kite Runner
About the Author
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 4, 1965. He received a bachelor's degree in biology from Santa Clara University in 1988 and a medical degree from the University of California-San Diego's School of Medicine in 1993. He was a practicing internist from 1996 to 2004. While in mostrar mais medical practice, he began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner, which was published in 2003. His other books include A Thousand Splendid Suns and And the Mountains Echoed. In 2006, he was named a Goodwill Envoy to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. He established The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner [abridged audio] 4 exemplares
GJUETARI I BALONAVE 3 exemplares
Sacred Causes 1 exemplar
Traumsammler, Kapitel 119 1 exemplar
NJE MIJE DIEJ VEZULLUES 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan (2009) — Prefácio — 1,876 exemplares
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contribuidor — 132 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- خالد حسینی
- Data de nascimento
- 1965-03-04
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Afghanistan
USA - País (no mapa)
- Afghanistan
- Local de nascimento
- Kabul, Afghanistan
- Locais de residência
- Kabul, Afghanistan (birth)
Tehran, Iran
Paris, France
San Jose, California, USA - Educação
- Santa Clara University (BS|Biology|1988)
University of California, San Diego (MD|1993) - Ocupações
- Doctor of medicine
- Organizações
- UNHCR, The United Nations Refugee Agency [U.S. envoy]
Khaled Hosseini Foundation - Agente
- Elaine Koster
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini em Book talk (Outubro 2019)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 15
- Also by
- 5
- Membros
- 89,542
- Popularidade
- #114
- Avaliação
- 4.2
- Críticas
- 2,555
- ISBN
- 638
- Línguas
- 39
- Marcado como favorito
- 240
- Pedras de toque
- 1,670