Khaled Hosseini

AGE: 44
OCCUPATION: Author
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1

PRO: As the author of two internationally acclaimed novels, — The Kite Runner (2003) and A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007), he has served as an unofficial cultural diplomat between Afghanistan and the rest of the world.

CON: Afghanistan needs a lot more than one cultural diplomat.

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