Douglas Coupland (pronounced COPE-lund)[2] (born December 30, 1961) is a Canadian novelist. His fiction [bad word] 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, a collection of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. Coupland has been described as "...possibly the most gifted exegete of North American mass culture writing today."[3] and "one of the great satirists of consumerism".[4] specific feature of Coupland's novels is their synthesis of postmodern religion, Web 2.0 technology, human uality, and pop culture.
Coupland lives in West Vancouver, British Columbia with his partner David Weir.[1] He published his twelfth novel Generation in 2009. He also released an updated version of City of Glass and a biography on Marshall McLuhan for Penguin Canada in their Extraordinary Canadians series, called Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan.[5] He is the presenter of the 2010 Massey Lectures, and [bad word] novel to the lectures, Player One – What Is to [bad word] of Us: Novel in Five Hours. Coupland has been longlisted twice for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2006 and 2010, respectively.,[6] was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' [bad word] Fiction Prize in 2009,[7] and was nominated for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 2011 for Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan.[8][9][10]