Douglas Coupland

Lorne Roberts (Concordia University, Canada)

Ed. by Karis Shearer, University of British Columbia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 30 Dec 1961
Activity 1981-ongoing

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Born in Canada
Active in Canada

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Novelist
Story-writer

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Douglas Coupland is a Canadian writer, visual artist, and designer. He has published fifteen books of fiction and nine books of non-fiction, as well as having written works for television, film, and stage. Outside of his writing, he has also produced a significant body of design and visual art, including several major public commissions. While his work has appeared in translation in twenty-two languages and thirty countries, it has received only moderate (though growing) attention from Canadian academics, and only a few nominations for literary prizes in Canada or elsewhere. His 1991 novel

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is often thought of as a defining work of 1990s North American pop culture (Aitkinhead 2009) . However, critics and scholars have been divided on whether…

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Citation: Roberts, Lorne. "Douglas Coupland". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 November 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5372, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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