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Khaled Hosseini

February 2024

  • Khaled Hosseini, American writer, Mantova 2016, Italy, 11th March 2014. (Photo by Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images)

    Author Khaled Hosseini on book bans in the US: ‘It betrays students’

    Hosseini’s The Kite Runner has joined a growing list of titles ‘under review’ or challenged by school boards, with nearly 5,894 books banned from July 2021 to June 2023

September 2021

  • Reza Khandan Mahabadi, Keyvan Bajan and Baktash Abtin

    Margaret Atwood and JM Coetzee demand release of jailed Iranian writers

    A letter by PEN America, signed by dozens of high-profile writers and artistic figures, calls for Baktash Abtin, Keyvan Bajan, and Reza Khandan Mahabadi to be acquitted

February 2020

  • Contenders … EL James, Barack Obama and Hilary Mantel.

    British Book awards balance art and selling power to decide best writer in 30 years

    Novelists rub shoulders with presidents, chefs, comedians and thriller megastars on longlist to define the title with the biggest impact on the book world

July 2019

  • Neil Gaiman Ocean Vuong Khaled Hosseini

    US writers recall their migrant journeys in protest at asylum seekers' treatment

    Khaled Hosseini, Ocean Vuong and Neil Gaiman among leading authors to sign a letter to the US Congress, urging action to remedy ‘atrocious conditions’

May 2019

  • Sujaya Dasgupta as Laila in A Thousand Splendid Suns.

    A Thousand Splendid Suns review – ultimately engaging Hosseini adaptation

  • Strength and betrayal … Sujaya Dasgupta and Amina Zia.

    A Thousand Splendid Suns review – comic fog clouds Hosseini drama

September 2018

  • Khaled Hosseini

    In brief: Sea Prayer; Reaching for Utopia; Macbeth – reviews

    Khaled Hosseini’s haunting response to the death of a refugee child, Jason Cowley’s thoughtful collection of writings and Jo Nesbø’s gritty reimagining of the Shakespeare tragedy

August 2018

  • Barack Obama reading a letter at his desk in the White House

    ‘Everybody’s got a sacred story’

  • Illustration by Dan Williams for Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini

    Khaled Hosseini: Refugees are still dying. How do we get over our news fatigue?

May 2018

  • Liu Xia<br>In this July 15, 2017, file photo provided by the Shenyang Municipal Information Office, Liu Xia, center, wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, holds a portrait of him during his funeral at a funeral parlor in Shenyang in northeastern China’s Liaoning Province. A close friend of the late Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has released a recording of an emotional phone call with his widow. Liu Xia has never been charged with a crime, but has been kept guarded and largely isolated since her late husband was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his human rights activism in 2010. He was still serving a prison sentence for “subversion” when he died last summer. (Shenyang Municipal Information Office via AP, File)

    Liu Xia: Paul Auster and JM Coetzee lead renewed calls for Chinese poet's release

    Liu, who has never been charged with a crime, has been under house arrest in China since her late husband Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel peace prize in 2010

September 2017

  • Khaled Hosseini

    How Khaled Hosseini finds hope in telling refugees' stories

    The author’s new story Sea Prayer is being staged in virtual reality for the Guardian. He explains how his work for the UN – and wish to make a difference – inspired it
  • A Turkish police officer carries the body of Alan Kurdi.

    8,500 people lost in Mediterranean since death of three-year-old Alan Kurdi

    Author Khaled Hosseini responds to images of Syrian boy washed ashore by writing short story animated in virtual reality
  • Sea Prayer illustrated in Tilt Brush

    Sea Prayer: a 360 story inspired by refugee Alan Kurdi

    Exclusive: Novelist Khaled Hosseini marks the second anniversary of three-year-old Syrian boy’s death with an illustrated story animated in a virtual reality film

June 2017

  • visitors to the Tehran international book fair in 2014.

    Why Iran has 16 different translations of one Khaled Hosseini novel

    Lack of copyright has filled a nation of very keen readers with multiple versions of foreign books – doing artistic as well as financial damage to writers

January 2017

  • the cast of the kite runner on stage at wyndhams theatre london

    The Kite Runner; Barons perchés review – a fine tale with strings attached

  • The Kite Runner - UK Productions<br>The Kite Runner at Wyndhams Jan 2017 Ben Turner (centre)Photo Robert Workman

    The Kite Runner review – loses its grip on Khaled Hosseini’s engaging tale

December 2016

  • Steve McQueen as Papillon in the eponymous 1973 film.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 escapes in literature

    From Alexandre Dumas to Stephen King and John le Carré, these stories of nerve and endurance are perennially compelling

March 2016

  • The Book Thief film still

    Children's books
    Books are dangerous for blurring the lines between fiction and reality

    Dangerous books sometimes bring a story to life, sometimes bring life to a story, says teen site member IntergalacticZen, but they’re dangerous for the way they make us feel. All the author does is pose one simple, terrifying question: What if?

May 2015

  • The original Harry Potter book. Sales are still rising for Bloomsbury.

    New Harry Potter illustrated editions spell rising sales for Bloomsbury

  • Lon Chaney, Jr as Lennie, and Burgess Meredith as George in the 1940 film version of Steinbeck's novel.

    Idaho parents push for schools to ban Of Mice and Men for its 'profanities'

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