Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland (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...

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