Douglas Coupland
Auteur van Generatie X
Over de 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 toon meer 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) toon minder
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Werken van Douglas Coupland
Shopping in Jail: Ideas, Essays, and Stories for the Increasingly Real 21st Century (2013) 39 exemplaren
Komadaki Sevgilim 1 exemplaar
Rex Ray: Art + Design 1 exemplaar
Survivor 1 exemplaar
everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything 1 exemplaar
Super City 1 exemplaar
Twenty-Minute Stories 1 exemplaar
Γενιά Χ : ιστορίες για μια έκρυθμη κουλτούρα 1 exemplaar
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- Coupland, Douglas
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- 1961-12-30
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- RCAF Station Baden-Soellingen (later CFB Baden-Soellingen), Baden-Söllingen, West Germany
- Woonplaatsen
- West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Sapporo, Japan
Milan, Italy
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Opleiding
- Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver
Japan-American Institute of Management Science
Sentinel Secondary School, Vancouver, Canada
McGill University, Montreal, Canada - Beroepen
- artist
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- Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
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- 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)
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