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  <name><![CDATA[Douglas Coupland]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Douglas Coupland is Canadian, born on a Canadian Air Force base near Baden-Baden, Germany, on December 30, 1961. In 1965 his family moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he continues to live and work. Coupland has studied art and design in Vancouver, Canada, Milan, Italy and Sapporo, Japan. His first novel, [book: Generation X], was published in March of 1991. Since then he has published nine novels and several non-fiction books in 35 languages and most countries on earth. He has written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England, and in 2001 resumed his practice as a visual artist, with exhibitions in spaces in North America, Europe and Asia. 2006 marks the premiere of the feature film Everything's Gone Green, his first story written specifically for the screen and not adapted from any previous work. A TV series (13 one-hour episodes) based on his novel, [book: jPod] premieres on the CBC in January, 2008. His most recent novel is, [book: The Gum Thief]. 

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  <title><![CDATA[Microserfs]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Girlfriend in a Coma]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Life After God]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Douglas Coupland]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[JPod: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Hey Nostradamus!]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[All Families Are Psychotic]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Shampoo Planet]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Eleanor Rigby]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Miss Wyoming]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Douglas Coupland]]></name>
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  <published>1999</published>  
  
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