43 Facts About Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland was born on 30 December 1961 and is a Canadian novelist, designer, and visual artist.

Douglas Coupland has published 13 novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television.

Douglas Coupland is a columnist for the Financial Times, as well as a frequent contributor to The New York Times, e-flux journal, DIS Magazine, and Vice.

Douglas Coupland released an updated version of City of Glass and the biography Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan.

Douglas Coupland has been long-listed twice for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2006 and 2010, was a finalist for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2009, and was nominated for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 2011 for Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan.

In 1965, the Douglas Coupland family moved to West Vancouver, where Douglas Coupland's father opened a private family medical practice at the completion of his military tour.

Douglas Coupland's parents tried to get away from that but unwittingly transmitted their values to my mother.

Douglas Coupland left McGill at the year's end and returned to Vancouver to attend art school.

Douglas Coupland completed courses in business science, fine art, and industrial design in Japan in 1986.

Douglas Coupland began writing for magazines as a means of paying his studio bills.

From 1989 to 1990, Douglas Coupland lived in the Mojave Desert working on a handbook about the birth cohort that followed the baby boom.

Douglas Coupland received a $22,500 advance from St Martin's Press to write the nonfiction handbook.

Douglas Coupland permanently moved back to Vancouver soon after the novel was published.

Douglas Coupland had spent his "twenties scouring the globe thinking there had to be a better city out there, until it dawned on [him] that Vancouver is the best one going".

Douglas Coupland wrote a collection of small books, which together were compiled, after the advice of his publisher, into the book Life After God.

In 1994, Douglas Coupland was working for the newly formed magazine Wired.

Douglas Coupland followed Microserfs with his first collection of non-fiction pieces, in 1996.

Douglas Coupland reportedly incorporated his experience with depression during this period into his novel, Girlfriend in a Coma.

In 1998, Douglas Coupland contributed the short story "Fire at the Ativan Factory" to the collection Disco 2000, and the same year, wrote the liner notes for Saint Etienne's album Good Humor.

Douglas Coupland then published his photographic paean to Vancouver: City of Glass.

Douglas Coupland wrote the novel as five hour-long lectures aired on CBC Radio from November 8 to 12,2010.

Douglas Coupland's 2010 Massey Lecture is a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster.

Ballard, Douglas Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion, and the afterlife.

On September 20,2010, Player One was announced as part of the initial longlist for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize literary award, Douglas Coupland's second long-listing for the prize after being long-listed in 2006 with jPod.

Douglas Coupland followed Player One with a second short story collection, this time in collaboration with the artist Graham Roumieu, entitled Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People.

In 2017 Douglas Coupland was awarded the 2017 Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence.

Douglas Coupland was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2007.

In 2014, Douglas Coupland was made a member of the Order of British Columbia.

Douglas Coupland received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, an honorary Doctor of Letters from Simon Fraser University, an honorary degree from the University of British Columbia, an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Mount Allison University, and an honorary doctorate degree from OCAD University.

In 2000, Douglas Coupland resumed a visual arts practice dormant since 1989.

Douglas Coupland's is a post-medium practice that employs a variety of materials.

Douglas Coupland is represented by the Daniel Faria Gallery in Toronto.

The Roots X Douglas Coupland collection was announced in The Globe and Mail and featured clothing, art installations, sculpture, custom designed art and retail spaces.

In September 2010, Douglas Coupland, working with Toronto's PLANT Architect, won the art and design contract for a new national monument in Ottawa.

In 2014, Douglas Coupland announced plans to construct in south Vancouver a gold-coloured replica of Stanley Park's Hollow Tree.

In 2015, Douglas Coupland became Google's Artist in Residence at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris.

In 2014, the Vancouver Art Gallery organized a major retrospective of Douglas Coupland's art, entitled everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything.

In 2018, Douglas Coupland collaborated with Ocean Wise to highlight ocean plastic pollution in Vortex, a major sculpture exhibition that was unveiled at Vancouver Aquarium in Vancouver, Canada on May 18.

Douglas Coupland has written extensively for Vice magazine and writes a column for the FT Magazine.

In 2007 Douglas Coupland worked with the CBC to write and executive-produce a television series based on his novel jPod.

Douglas Coupland codesigned Canoe Landing Park, an eight-hectare urban park in downtown Toronto adjacent to the Gardiner Expressway.

Douglas Coupland has raised money for the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee by participating in advertising campaigns.

Douglas Coupland is a regular contributor to Wikipedia; during his appearance at the Cheltenham Literary Festival in 2013, to promote his novel Worst.