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Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland in Haida Gwaii (2022)
Douglas Coupland in Haida Gwaii (2022)
Born (1961-12-30) December 30, 1961 (age 62)
CFB Baden–Soellingen, West Germany
Occupation
  • Writer
  • artist
NationalityCanadian
Literary movement
Notable works
Website
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Douglas Coupland[a] OC OBC RCA (born 30 December 1961) is a Canadian novelist, designer, and visual artist. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized the terms Generation X and McJob. He has published 13 novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. He is a columnist for the Financial Times,[3] as well as a frequent contributor to The New York Times, e-flux journal, DIS Magazine, and Vice.[4] His art exhibits include Everywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything, which was exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery,[5] and the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, now the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada,[6] and Bit Rot at Rotterdam's Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art,[7] as well as the Villa Stuck.[8]

Coupland is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a member of the Order of British Columbia.[9][10] He published his thirteenth novel Worst. Person. Ever. in 2012. He also released an updated version of City of Glass and the biography Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan.[11] He was the presenter of the 2010 Massey Lectures, with a companion novel to the lectures published by House of Anansi Press: Player One – What Is to Become of Us: A Novel in Five Hours. Coupland has been long-listed twice for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2006 and 2010, was a finalist for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2009, and was nominated for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 2011 for Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan.[12][13][14]

  1. ^ "Douglas Coupland". Bookclub. 7 March 2010. BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 9 April 2011. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  2. ^ Steve Lohr, "No More McJobs for Mr. X", The New York Times, May 29, 1994
  3. ^ "Douglas Coupland". www.ft.com. Financial Times. Archived from the original on 25 December 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Douglas Coupland · About & Contact". Douglas Coupland. Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  5. ^ "Vancouver Art Gallery". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Archived from the original on 23 December 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  6. ^ "Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada – Douglas Coupland: everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything". museumofcontemporaryart.ca. Archived from the original on 23 December 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  7. ^ "Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland, Friday 11 September 2015 – Sunday 3 January 2016". Archived from the original on 27 April 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  8. ^ "Museum Villa Stuck: Douglas Coupland. Bit Rot". www.villastuck.de. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference orderofcanada was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference orderofbc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ "Extraordinary Canadians". Archived from the original on 2011-03-07. Retrieved 2009-01-04.
  12. ^ "John Vaillant, Douglas Coupland among writers nominated for BC Book Prizes | Afterword | National Post". Arts.nationalpost.com. 2011-03-10. Archived from the original on 2012-07-07. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
  13. ^ "BC Book Prizes". Bcbookprizes.ca. Archived from the original on 2011-09-02. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
  14. ^ "Coupland, Bowering on shortlist for B.C. Book Prizes". Archived from the original on March 18, 2011. Retrieved March 14, 2011.


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