Douglas Coupland
Novelist, Author
1961 –
Who is Douglas Coupland?
Douglas Coupland OC OBC is a Canadian novelist and artist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and Generation X. He has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific feature of Coupland's novels is their synthesis of postmodern religion, Web 2.0 technology, human sexuality, and pop culture.
Coupland lives in West Vancouver, British Columbia with his partner David Weir. He published his twelfth novel Generation A in 2009. He also released an updated version of City of Glass and a biography of Marshall McLuhan for Penguin Canada in their Extraordinary Canadians series, called Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan. He is the presenter of the 2010 Massey Lectures, and a companion novel to the lectures, Player One – What Is to Become of Us: A Novel in Five Hours.
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- Born
- Dec 30, 1961
CFB Baden-Soellingen - Also known as
- Ντάγκλας Κούπλαντ
- Коупленд, Дуглас
- Ethnicity
- Canadian
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- McGill University
- Emily Carr University of Art and Design
- Sentinel Secondary School
- Doctor of Letters
- Lived in
- Vancouver
- British Columbia
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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