Douglas Coupland (/ˈkoʊplənd/KOHP-lənd) OC OBC (conceived December 30, 1961) is a Canadian writer and craftsman. His fiction is supplemented by perceived works in outline and visual workmanship emerging from his initial formal preparing.
His first novel, the 1991 global hit Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, advanced terms, for example, "McJob" and "Era X". He has distributed thirteen books, two accumulations of short stories, seven true to life books, and various sensational works and screenplays for film and TV. He is an editorialist for Financial Times. He is likewise an incessant supporter of The New York Times, e-flux diary, Dis, and Vice. His craft shows incorporate Everywhere is Anywhere is Anything is Everything which was displayed at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and Bit Rot at the Villa Stuck.
Coupland is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and an individual from the Order of British Columbia. He distributed his thirteenth novel Worst. Individual. Ever. in 2012. He likewise discharged a refreshed adaptation of City of Glass and a history of Marshall McLuhan for Penguin Canada in their Extraordinary Canadians arrangement, called Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan. He is the moderator of the 2010 Massey Lectures, and a friend novel to the addresses, Player One – What Is to Become of Us: A Novel in Five Hours. Coupland has been longlisted twice for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2006 and 2010, individually, was a finalist for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2009, and was designated for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 2011 for Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan.
His first novel, the 1991 global hit Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, advanced terms, for example, "McJob" and "Era X". He has distributed thirteen books, two accumulations of short stories, seven true to life books, and various sensational works and screenplays for film and TV. He is an editorialist for Financial Times. He is likewise an incessant supporter of The New York Times, e-flux diary, Dis, and Vice. His craft shows incorporate Everywhere is Anywhere is Anything is Everything which was displayed at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and Bit Rot at the Villa Stuck.
Coupland is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and an individual from the Order of British Columbia. He distributed his thirteenth novel Worst. Individual. Ever. in 2012. He likewise discharged a refreshed adaptation of City of Glass and a history of Marshall McLuhan for Penguin Canada in their Extraordinary Canadians arrangement, called Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan. He is the moderator of the 2010 Massey Lectures, and a friend novel to the addresses, Player One – What Is to Become of Us: A Novel in Five Hours. Coupland has been longlisted twice for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2006 and 2010, individually, was a finalist for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2009, and was designated for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 2011 for Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan.
