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卡勒德·胡赛尼人物生平
胡赛尼的父亲为外交官，母亲是喀布尔女子学校的教师。1970年，全家随父亲外派到伊朗的德黑兰，在1973年，全家搬回喀布尔。同年，他母亲生下了最小的弟弟。这一年是阿富汗政权维持稳定的最后一年。之后政变与外侵不断，也结束了胡赛尼在阿富汗美好的童年。1976年，胡赛尼的父亲在法国巴黎找到了工作，于是全家搬迁到巴黎居住，由于阿富汗政权极不稳定，全家就再也没有返国了。1980年，苏联入侵阿富汗，他父亲决定向美国申请政治庇护，之后就举家移民到美国加州的圣荷西。初时经济贫困，曾向美国政府领取福利金与食物券。
1984年，胡赛尼高中毕业，申请到圣塔克拉拉大学念生物，毕业后在加州大学圣地牙哥分校的医学系就读，1993年取得了MD（行医执照）后，1996年在加州洛城的锡安山医学院完成实习工作。目前他是一位内科医师。已婚并育有两位孩子。
卡勒德·胡赛尼-作品介绍
《追风筝的人》是胡赛尼医生的第一本小说，也是美国第一本由阿富汗人写出的英文小说，由于胡赛尼的母亲是教师，在他童年带他读了相当多的波斯诗歌和波斯小说，引导他对写作的兴趣。在他们住在伊朗时，三年级的胡赛尼认识了一位哈扎拉族朋友。胡赛尼教他写作、读书，这段温馨的回忆遂成为日后《追风筝的人》故事中主角阿米尔与哈山的背景。这本书中以阿米尔的角度，描述了阿富汗的社会与政治转折，并带出逊尼派的普什图人对什叶派的哈扎拉人的种族歧视。由于主题特殊且情节动人，2003年出版后陆续获得许多新人文学奖，并跃居全美各大畅销排行榜。成为当年全美第三大畅销书。《追风筝的人》在2006年由梦工厂买下电影版权。导演为马克·弗斯特（Marc Forster）。
胡赛尼的第二本小说《灿烂千阳》（A Thousand Splendid Suns）英文原文版于2007年5月出版，台湾地区之中文版于2008年2月问市。
《灿烂千阳》再次以阿富汗战乱为背景，时空跨越三十年，用细腻感人的笔触描绘了阿富汗旧家族制度下苦苦挣扎的妇女，她们所怀抱的希望、爱情、梦想与所有的失落。《灿烂千阳》一书的主人公玛丽雅姆在阿富汗一个偏远贫穷的地方长大，她想上学，母亲却告诫她：“学校怎么会教你这样的人？一个女人只要学一样本领，那就是忍耐。”“忍耐什么？”“不用操心，”她母亲娜娜说，“需要你忍耐的东西绝不会少。”胡赛尼在《灿烂千阳》里展现了半个世纪阿富汗妇女所要忍耐的种种。个人，要忍耐饥饿、病痛的约束。家庭要承受战争的创伤、难民的流离失所。国家要忍耐前苏联、塔利班与美国的战争。这是一部阿富汗忍耐的历史。
Biography
Hosseini was born in Kabul where his father worked for the Afghanistan Foreign Ministry. In 1970, Hosseini and his family moved to Tehran, Iran, where his father worked for the Embassy of Afghanistan. In 1973, Hosseini's family returned to Kabul, and Hosseini's youngest brother was born in July of that year.
In 1976, Hosseini's father obtained a job in Paris, France and moved the family there. They chose not to return to Afghanistan because PDPA had seized power through a bloody coup in April 1978. Instead, in 1980 they sought political asylum in the United States and made their residence in San Jose, California.
Hosseini graduated from Independence High School in San Jose in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 1988. The following year, he entered the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned his M.D. in 1993. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 1996. He practiced medicine until a year and a half after the release of The Kite Runner.
Hosseini is currently a Goodwill Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He lives in Northern California with his wife, Roya, and their two children.
[edit]Influences
Khaled Hosseini with actors from The Kite Runner, Bahram and Elham Ehsas.
When Khaled Hosseini was a child, he read a great deal of Persian poetry as well as Persian translations of novels ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer series. Hosseini's "very fond memories of [his] childhood" in peaceful pre-Soviet era Afghanistan, as well as his personal experiences with Afghanistan's Hazara people led to the writing of his first novel, The Kite Runner. One Hazara man, named Hossein Khan, worked for the Hosseinis when they were living in Iran. When Khaled Hosseini was in third grade, he taught Khan to read and write. Although his relationship with Hossein Khan was brief and rather formal, Hosseini's fond memories of this relationship served as an inspiration for the relationship between Hassan and Amir in The Kite Runner.
[edit]Novels
The Kite Runner (ISBN 1-59448-000-1) is the story of a young boy, Amir, struggling to establish a closer rapport with his father and coping with memories of a haunting childhood event. The novel is set in Afghanistan, from the fall of the monarchy until the collapse of the Taliban regime, and in the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically in Fremont, California. Its many themes include ethnic tensions between the Hazara and the Pashtun in Afghanistan, and the immigrant experiences of Amir and his father in the United States. The novel was the number three best seller for 2005 in the United States, according to Nielsen BookScan. The Kite Runner was also produced as an audiobook read by the author. The Kite Runner has been adapted into a film of the same name released in December, 2007. Hosseini made a cameo appearance towards the end of the movie as a bystander when Amir buys a kite which he later flies with Sohrab.
Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns (ISBN 1-59448-950-5), the story of two women of Afghanistan, Mariam and Laila, whose lives become entwined, was released by Riverhead Books on May 22, 2007, simultaneous with the Simon & Schuster audiobook. Movie rights have been acquired by producer Scott Rudin and Columbia Pictures.