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 747,443 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Douglas Coupland is the 5,586th most popular writer (down from 5,356th in 2019), the 5,056th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,565th in 2019) and the 333rd most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 750k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Shampoo planet
Conflict of generations in fiction, Conflict of generations, Fiction
1992
Life after God
American Short stories
1994
Microserfs
Computer software industry, Employees, Fiction
Microserfs is an epistolary novel by Douglas Coupland. It first appeared in short story form as the cover article for the January 1994 issue of Wired magazine and was subsequently expanded to full novel length. Set in the early 1990s, it captures the state of the technology industry before Windows 95, and anticipates the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s. The novel is presented in the form of diary entries maintained on a PowerBook by the narrator, Daniel. Because of this, as well as its formatting and usage of emoticons, this novel is similar to what emerged a decade later as the blog format.
1995
Girlfriend in a coma
Fiction, Patients, Television programs
A New Age novel on a Vancouver woman who falls into a coma which lasts nearly two decades. The novel traces the impact on her family, especially on her boyfriend and a daughter she gave birth to just before the coma. By the author of Life after God.
1998
Eleanor Rigby
Hale-Bopp comet, Overweight women, Self-realization in fiction
2004
JPod
Electronic games industry in fiction, Bureaucracy, Geeks (Computer enthusiasts)
2006

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Douglas Coupland ranks 5,586 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 5,056 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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