7. Khaled+Hosseeini



Historical- Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, Khaled Hosseini has become a very well recognized American novelist. Khaled’s family was relocated to Paris in 1976 due to diplomatic order of the Foreign Ministry in Afghanistan. When the family sought return to their hometown, in 1980, they found the country in chaos. Afghanistan had been invaded by the Soviet Union. Rather than returning to the horrible living conditions in Kabul, the family moved to the United States. His first novel The Kite Runner was published in 2003 when he was 38 years old. Three years after the books publishing, Khaled Hosseini returned back to Afghanistan with the United Nations Refugee Agency. There he began The Khaled Hosseini Foundation with the goals of providing assistance to the people of his home country. The Kite Runner was later adapted into a screen film.