WRITER

Douglas Coupland

1961 - Today

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Douglas Coupland (born 30 December 1961) is a Canadian novelist, designer, and visual artist. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized the terms Generation X and McJob. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Douglas Coupland has received more than 760,068 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Douglas Coupland is the 5,587th most popular writer (down from 5,356th in 2019), the 5,057th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,565th in 2019) and the 333rd most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 760k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Douglas Coupland ranks 5,587 out of 7,302. Before him are Francis Carco, Zofka Kveder, Beryl Markham, Aubrey de Grey, Alexander Amfiteatrov, and Lina Morgenstern. After him are Madeleine L'Engle, Luigi Galleani, George Lillo, Yordan Radichkov, Fang Fang, and Åsne Seierstad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Douglas Coupland ranks 325. Before him are Boško Gjurovski, Steven Moffat, Cédric Klapisch, Takao Kobayashi, Simon West, and Yoshimasa Hayashi. After him are Katrin Cartlidge, Anton Josipović, Camryn Manheim, Patricia Urquiola, Guru, and Jon Secada.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Douglas Coupland ranks 5,057 out of 7,253. Before him are Michael Müller (1964), Gerd Hornberger (1910), Karl Schorn (1803), Rosemarie Trockel (1952), Lida Heymann (1868), and Johann August Ephraim Goeze (1731). After him are Henriette Reker (1956), Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1878), Lars Eidinger (1976), Käthe Krauss (1906), Thomas Munkelt (1952), and Edgar Basel (1930).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Douglas Coupland ranks 333. Before him are Carl Amery (1922), Gabriele Kuby (1944), Brigitte Reimann (1933), Ferdinand von Schirach (1964), Kerstin Gier (1966), and Stefan Andres (1906). After him are August Spies (1855), Wolfgang Hohlbein (1953), Peter Wohlleben (1964), H. A. Rey (1898), Walter Moers (1957), and Erwin Strittmatter (1912).

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