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}} Douglas Coupland (pronounced )〔Steve Lohr, "No More McJobs for Mr. X", The New York Times, May 29, 1994〕 (born December 30, 1961) is a Canadian novelist and artist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller ''Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture'', popularized terms such as "McJob" and "Generation X". He has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific feature of Coupland's novels is their synthesis of postmodern religion, Web 2.0 technology, human sexuality, and pop culture. Coupland is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a member of the Order of British Columbia.〔〔 He published his twelfth novel ''Generation A'' in 2009. He also released an updated version of ''City of Glass'' and a biography of Marshall McLuhan for Penguin Canada in their ''Extraordinary Canadians'' series, called ''Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2009-01-04 )〕 He is the presenter of the 2010 Massey Lectures, and a companion novel to the lectures, ''Player One – What Is to Become of Us: A Novel in Five Hours''. Coupland has been longlisted twice for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2006 and 2010, respectively, 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''.〔()〕 Coupland's most recent novel is ''Worst. Person. Ever.'' released in 2013 in Canada and 2014 in the USA. ==Early life== Coupland was born on December 30, 1961 at Royal Canadian Air Force base ''RCAF Station Baden-Soellingen'' (later CFB Baden-Soellingen) in Baden-Söllingen, West Germany, the second of four sons to Dr. Douglas Charles Thomas Coupland, a medical officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and homemaker C. Janet Coupland, a graduate in comparative religion from McGill University. In 1965, the Coupland family relocated to West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where Coupland's father opened private family medical practice at the completion of his military tour. Coupland describes his upbringing as producing a "blank slate".〔Wark, Penny."Trawling for Columbine". The Times, September 12th, 2003.〕 "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. Her parents tried to get away from that but unwittingly transmitted their values to my mother. My father's family weren't that different."〔 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.〔Colman, David. "Take a Sharp Turn at Fiorucci". The New York Times, September 30, 2007.〕 Coupland left McGill at the year's end and returned to Vancouver to attend art school. At the Emily Carr College of Art and Design (now the Emily Carr University of Art and Design) on Granville Island in Vancouver, in Coupland's words, "I ... had the best four years of my life. It's the one place I've felt truly, totally at home. It was a magic era between the hippies and the PC goon squads. Everyone talked to everyone and you could ask anybody anything."〔Jackson, Alan. "I didn't get where I am today without..." The Times, June 17, 2006.〕 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.〔 He also completed courses in business science, fine art, and industrial design in Japan in 1986. Established as a designer working in Tokyo, Coupland suffered a skin condition brought on by Tokyo's summer climate, and returned to Vancouver.〔 Before leaving Japan, Coupland had sent a postcard ahead to a friend in Vancouver. The friend's husband, a magazine editor, read the postcard and offered Coupland a job writing for the magazine.〔 Coupland began writing for magazines as a means of paying his studio bills.〔"The week in Reviews:Talkin' about his generation". The Observer, April 26, 1998.〕 Reflecting on his becoming a writer, Coupland has admitted that he became one "By accident. I never wanted to be a writer. Now that I do it, there's nothing else I'd rather do."〔http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-40958285.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Douglas Coupland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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