Douglas Coupland is Canadian, born on a Canadian Air Force base near Baden-Baden, Germany, in 1961. In 1965 his family moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he continues to live and work. Coupland has studied art and design in Vancouver, Canada, Milan, Italy and Sapporo, Japan. His first novel, Generation X, was published in March of 1991. Since then he has published eleven novels and several non-fiction books in 35 languages and most countries on earth. He has written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England, and in 2001 resumed his practice as a visual artist, with exhibitions in spaces in North America, Europe, and Asia. 2006 marks the premiere of the feature film Everything's Gone Green, his first story written specifically for the screen and not adapted from any previous work. A TV series (13 one-hour episodes) based on his novel, "jPod" premiered on the CBC in January, 2008.
Playboy ...the witty humor, vulnerable uncertainty, and
self-deprecating honesty of his narrator...makes Coupland's novel
so exceptional.
The New York Post An eye-catching prose style and a firm grip on
the zeitgeist...Coupland's a brilliant wordsmith...
Playboy ...the witty humor, vulnerable uncertainty, and
self-deprecating honesty of his narrator...makes Coupland's novel
so exceptional.
The New York Post An eye-catching prose style and a firm
grip on the zeitgeist...Coupland's a brilliant wordsmith...
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