Douglas Coupland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer
Date of Birth: 30-Dec-1961
Place of Birth: Rheinmünster, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Profession: screenwriter, writer, artist, sculptor, fashion designer, designer, novelist, science fiction writer
Nationality: Canada
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
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About Douglas Coupland
- Douglas Coupland (born 1961) 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.
- He is a columnist for Financial Times.
- He is also a frequent contributor to The New York Times, e-flux journal, Dis, and Vice.
- His art exhibits include Everywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything which was exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and Bit Rot at Rotterdam's Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and the Villa Stuck.Coupland is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a member of the Order of British Columbia.
- He published his thirteenth novel Worst.
- Person.
- Ever.
- in 2012.
- 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.
- Coupland has been longlisted 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.
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