Reflecting on his becoming a writer, Coupland has admitted that he became one "By accident. Coupland began writing for magazines as a means of paying his studio bills. The friend's husband, a magazine editor, read the postcard and offered Coupland a job writing for the magazine. Before leaving Japan, Coupland had sent a postcard ahead to a friend in Vancouver. He also completed courses in business science, fine art, and industrial design in Japan in 1986.Įstablished as a designer working in Tokyo, Coupland developed a skin condition brought on by Tokyo's summer climate, and returned to Vancouver. Everyone talked to everyone and you could ask anybody anything." Coupland graduated from Emily Carr in 1984 with a focus on sculpture, and moved on to study at the European Design Institute in Milan, Italy and the Hokkaido College of Art & Design in Sapporo, Japan. It was a magic era between the hippies and the PC goon squads. It's the one place I've felt truly, totally at home. Coupland left McGill at the year's end and returned to Vancouver to attend art school.Īt the Emily Carr College of Art and Design on Granville Island in Vancouver, in Coupland's words, "I. Graduating from Sentinel Secondary School in West Vancouver in 1979, Coupland went to McGill University with the intention of (like his father) studying the sciences, specifically physics. My father's family weren't that different." Her parents tried to get away from that but unwittingly transmitted their values to my mother. "My mother comes from a sour-faced family of preachers who from the 19th century to well into the 20th scoured the prairies thumping Bibles. In 1965, the Coupland family moved to West Vancouver, where Coupland's father opened a private family medical practice at the completion of his military tour.Ĭoupland describes his upbringing as producing a " blank slate". Janet Coupland, a graduate in comparative religion from McGill University. Early life Ĭoupland was born on December 30, 1961, at RCAF Station Baden-Soellingen in West Germany, the second of four sons of Douglas Charles Thomas Coupland, a medical officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and C. Coupland has been long-listed twice for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 20, 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. He was the presenter of the 2010 Massey Lectures, with a companion novel to the lectures published by House of Anansi Press: Player One – What Is to Become of Us: A Novel in Five Hours. He also released an updated version of City of Glass and the biography Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan. Ĭoupland is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a member of the Order of British Columbia. His art exhibits include Everywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything, which was exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, now the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada, and Bit Rot at Rotterdam's Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, as well as the Villa Stuck. He 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. He 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. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized the terms Generation X and McJob. From the BBC programme Bookclub, 7 March 2010 ĭouglas Coupland OC OBC RCA (born 30 December 1961) is a Canadian novelist, designer, and visual artist.
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