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Douglas Coupland
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Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer (born 1961)
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Douglas Coupland is a Canadian writer, sculptor, novelist, and designer. Born on December 30, 1961, at RCAF Station Baden–Soellingen in West Germany, he holds Canadian citizenship. He was educated at McGill University and Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Coupland writes in English and has been influenced by Bret Easton Ellis and J. G. Ballard.
His notable works include *Microserfs* and *JPod*. Other listed works are *ha-Ḥayim ʻal-pi Elohim*, *Naʻarah be-tardemah*, *Miss Wyoming Uk Edition*, and *The gum thief*. His work period began in 1991 and ended on January 1, 2015. He has works in the collection of the Nationalmuseum.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 30 December 1961
- Works
- 58
Top works
- JPod
- ha-Ḥayim ʻal-pi Elohim
- Naʻarah be-tardemah
- Miss Wyoming Uk Edition
- The gum thief
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · RCAF Station Baden–Soellingen, West Germany
Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist, designer, and visual artist.
Known for
- Everybody Wants to Be Gen X — Self2025
- Design Canada — Himself2018
- They Came from Venus2015
- Into the Wind — Himself2010
- Souvenir of Canada — Narrator (voice)2005
- My Love, My Umbrella — Philosopher2001
- Douglas Coupland: Close Personal Friend — Himself1996
- Charlie Rose — Self1991
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 457
- Total plays
- 3,268
Douglas Coupland (born December 30, 1961) is a major Canadian fiction writer as well as a playwright and visual artist. His first book, the 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, became an international bestseller and popularized the terms "McJob" and "Generation X". Much of Coupland's work explores the unexpected cultural shifts created by the impact of new technologies on middle class North American culture. <a href="
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
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· 2015 · cited 75,873x
- Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement
· 2009 · cited 58,724x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 56,523x
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 52,658x
- Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement
· 2009 · cited 23,419x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.”
- “"I wonder that all things seem to be from hell these days: dates, jobs, parties, weather .... Could the situation be that we no long believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison."”
- “"You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied."”
- “Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.”
- “All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.”
- “… after you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of Earth? … What moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet?”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1961-12-30 ) December 30, 1961 (age 64) , RCAF Station Baden–Soellingen , West Germany
- Occupation
- Writer artist
- Nationality
- Canadian
- Literary movement
- Postmodernism modernism
- Notable works
- Generation X (1991) Microserfs (1995) JPod (2006)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Douglas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Rheinmünster
- Occupation
- photographer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- JPod
- Official website
- coupland.com
- Image
- Douglas Coupland.2022.jpg
Show 12 more facts
- Commons category
- Douglas Coupland
- date of birth
- 1961-12-30
- influenced by
- J. G. Ballard
- name in native language
- Douglas Coupland
- has works in the collection
- Nationalmuseum
- start of work period
- 1991-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- social media followers
- 423094
- medical condition
- autism
- sexual orientation
- gay
- end of work period
- 2015-01-01
- described at URL
- v2.nl/people/douglas-coupland
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Douglas Coupland OC OBC RCA (born 30 December 1961) is a Canadian visual artist and writer. Trained originally as a sculptor, Coupland found unexpected success as a novelist with the publication of his 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, which popularized the terms Generation X and McJob. He has since gone on to publish dozens of books, including novels, short story collections, and essay collections. He has also worked as a columnist and contributor for a number of periodicals, including the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Guardian, and Wired Magazine.
Coupland has maintained a prolific visual art practice in parallel to his literary career, with the former eventually becoming his main focus. Primarily a mixture of sculpture and painting, his art–like his writing–has explored a variety of interests, including 20th-century pop culture, the relationship between technology and society, environmental pollution, spirituality, ecology, and the nature of Canadian national identity. Coupland’s art has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world: His first major retrospective, Everywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything, was shown in Vancouver and Toronto from 2014 to 2015, while his first major solo exhibition in Europe, Bit Rot, was shown at Rotterdam's Kunstinstituut Melly as well as Munich’s Villa Stuck between 2015 and 2017. Coupland has also created numerous public art installations which have been integrated into Canada’s urban landscape. Some of his most famous works in this regard include his Digital Orca in Vancouver; as well as the various pieces created for Toronto’s Canoe Landing Park.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Douglas Coupland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.