Douglas Coupland
Auteur de Génération X
A propos de l'auteur
Douglas Coupland was born December 30, 1961 on a Canadian military base in Baden-Soellingen, Germany. He graduated from Sentinel Secondary School in West Vancouver in 1979 and went on to McGill University. He was unhappy there and went on to Emily Carr College of Art and Design. He has said that afficher plus these were the best four years of his life. He graduated in 1984 with a focus on sculpture and moved on to study at the European Design Institute in Milan. He also completed a two-year course in Japanese business science in Hawaii in 1986.He soon began writing for magazines as a means of paying the bills. He soon started work on his first novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture which was published in 1991. His second novel Shampoo Planet focused on the generation after Generation X and was published in 1992. This generation was termed "Global Teens". His career has consisted of writing, sculpting, and editing and he also hosted The Search for Generation X, a PBS documentary, 1991. Douglas Coupland has also worked on a magazine called Wired . He wrote a short story about the life of the employees of Mocrosoft Corporation. This short story provided inspiration for his novel Microserfs. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: © D.J. Weir
Œuvres de Douglas Coupland
The Vancouver Stories: West Coast Fiction from Canada's Best Writers (2005) 47 exemplaires, 1 critique
Shopping in Jail: Ideas, Essays, and Stories for the Increasingly Real 21st Century (2013) 39 exemplaires, 1 critique
Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland (2010-10-04) 1 exemplaire
נערה בתרדמת 1 exemplaire
Rabbit Lane 1 exemplaire
Komadaki Sevgilim 1 exemplaire
Dio odia il Giappone 1 exemplaire
Rex Ray: Art + Design 1 exemplaire
everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything 1 exemplaire
Super City 1 exemplaire
Twenty-Minute Stories 1 exemplaire
Survivor 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
McSweeney's Issue 12: Unpublished, Unknown, and/or Unbelievable (2003) — Contributeur — 284 exemplaires, 4 critiques
Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow (2010) — Contributeur — 92 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Paddle Against the Flow: Lessons on Life from Doers, Creators, and Cultural Rebels (2015) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 33 exemplaires, 9 critiques
Hive of Dreams: Contemporary Science Fiction from the Pacific Northwest (Northwest Readers) (2003) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Coupland, Douglas
- Nom légal
- Coupland, Douglas
- Date de naissance
- 1961-12-30
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieu de naissance
- RCAF Station Baden-Soellingen (later CFB Baden-Soellingen), Baden-Söllingen, West Germany
- Lieux de résidence
- West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Sapporo, Japan
Milan, Italy
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Études
- Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver
Japan-American Institute of Management Science
Sentinel Secondary School, Vancouver, Canada
McGill University, Montreal, Canada - Professions
- artist
novelist - Organisations
- Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
- Prix et distinctions
- Books in Canada First Novel Award
Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction
Member, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (2007)
Officer of the Order of Canada (2013) - Agent
- Eric Simonoff (Janklow & Nesbit Associates)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Favourite Books (1)
2010s (1)
Nineties (1)
stories at work (1)
to get (1)
Favourite Books (1)
Massey Lectures (1)
Magic Realism (1)
Epistolary Books (2)
Best Satire (2)
1990s (3)
Five star books (5)
First Novels (1)
Read (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Read These Too (1)
Family Drama (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 49
- Aussi par
- 12
- Membres
- 37,191
- Popularité
- #492
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 618
- ISBN
- 473
- Langues
- 27
- Favoris
- 254
d'excellents passages et quelques longueurs, un peu de flou et des trouvailles...
D. Coupland est tellement doué qu'il en oubli de travailler... mais bon, je suis tellement nul que je mériterais même pas de figurer dans un de ses livres :-)