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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 704,957 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Douglas Coupland is the 5,375th most popular writer (down from 4,890th in 2019), the 4,579th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,040th in 2019) and the 309th most popular German Writer.

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  • 700k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Douglas Coupland ranks 5,375 out of 5,755. Before him are Stephen Leacock, Meg Cabot, Joe Sacco, Steven Saylor, Kim Newman, and Alexander Afinogenov. After him are Ferdinand von Schirach, Helene Hanff, Robert Edmond Grant, Qaysin Quli, Jorge Enrique Adoum, and Hallgrímur Helgason.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Douglas Coupland ranks 326. Before him are Armin Veh, Fausto Gresini, Laurent Cantet, Rune Bratseth, Corinne Hermès, and Kent Beck. After him are Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Yordanka Donkova, João Pinto, Luis Herrera, Tarsem Singh, and Liu Xia.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Douglas Coupland ranks 4,579 out of 6,142. Before him are Leni Schmidt (1906), Brigitte Zypries (1953), Christian Danner (1958), Erwin Teufel (1939), Tom Starke (1981), and Dieter Hecking (1964). After him are Ferdinand von Schirach (1964), Erik Zabel (1970), Willy Ley (1906), Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (1873), Anett Pötzsch (1960), and Brigitte Reimann (1933).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Douglas Coupland ranks 309. Before him are Kerstin Gier (1966), Marieluise Fleißer (1901), Carl Amery (1922), Heinrich Christian Boie (1744), Stefan Andres (1906), and Walter Moers (1957). After him are Ferdinand von Schirach (1964), Brigitte Reimann (1933), Timur Vermes (1967), Monika Maron (1941), Ralf König (1960), and Irmtraud Morgner (1933).

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