Shampoo Planet is Douglas Coupland's second novel, published by Pocket Books in 1992.
 It is a thematic followup to Coupland's first novel, "".
 The novel deals with Tyler, a Global Teen, who shares many characteristics of the character Tyler from "Generation X", the younger brother of Andy, "Generation X"'s narrator.
 The novel tells the story of Tyler's life as he arrives home from Europe, and the fallout of this trip and beyond.
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 is the fourteenth novel by Douglas Coupland, published in 2013.
 The novel is the story of Raymond Gunt, an offensive and shocking narrator, and his journey from London through Los Angeles to Kiribati, an island in the Pacific Ocean, where he is to work on a reality television show.
 The novel focuses on this character's direct and inflammatory reflections on the world around him, and the characters he meets.
 In an interview with NPR, Coupland stated that the novel was written as an antidote to an "epidemic of earnestness", and that the book was motivated by the question of "why not just go against a trend, and write something that might actually damage a person's soul, if they read it?"
Polaroids from the Dead is a collection of short stories and essays by Douglas Coupland.
 The theme is that each story is written from a collection of old polaroids Coupland found in a drawer.
 It is an attempt to describe the 1990s, a decade that "seemed to be living in a 1980s hangover".
 Topics of the stories include a Grateful Dead concert (source of "The Dead" in title), a post-mortem letter to Kurt Cobain, Vancouver's Lions Gate Bridge, and an homage to James Rosenquist's painting "F-111".
 The book's ends with a longer essay on Brentwood, California, home to Marilyn Monroe's grave, and the O. J. Simpson murder case.
 The essay is in part a collage of menus, scraps of conversation, and postings from bulletin boards.
Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, and a sequence of novels and films beginning with the life of a thirtysomething singleton in London trying to make sense of life and love. "
Bridget Jones's Diary" (1996) and " " (1999) were published in 40 countries and sold more than 15 million copies.
 The two films of the same name achieved international success.
 In a survey conducted by "The Guardian" newspaper, "Bridget Jones’s Diary" was named as one of the ten novels that best defined the 20th century.
The Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG) is a non-profit public art gallery in downtown Vancouver, focused on contemporary art.
 The CAG exhibits local, national, and international artists, primarily featuring emerging local artists producing Canadian contemporary art.
 It has exhibited work by many of Vancouver's most acclaimed artists, including Stan Douglas, Ian Wallace, Rodney Graham, Liz Magor, and Brian Jungen, and it continues to feature local artists such as Damian Moppett, Shannon Oksanen, Elspeth Pratt, Myfanwy MacLeod, and many others.
 International artists who have had exhibitions at the CAG include Dan Graham, Christopher Williams, Rachel Harrison, Hans-Peter Feldmann and Ceal Floyer.
 Other notable people that have curated or written for the CAG include Douglas Coupland, Beatriz Colomina, Roy Arden, and John Welchman.
 In January 2011, Nigel Prince, former curator of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham U.K., was appointed executive director of the CAG.
 Apart from the exhibition of visual art, the Contemporary Art Gallery produces publications, facilitates education and outreach programs, public talks, and visiting artist/curator programs, and maintains a library.
City of Glass is a book by Canadian author Douglas Coupland, published by Douglas and McIntyre in 2000, featuring short essays and photographs of his home town of Vancouver, British Columbia.
 Each essay deals with a different aspect of the city, such as the glass condominium towers which dominate the Vancouver skyline and give the book its title.
 It also includes the short story "My Hotel Year", which first appeared in Coupland's "Life After God" (1994), and the essay on another Vancouver landmark, Lions' Gate Bridge, which was published in "Polaroids from the Dead" (1996).
 An updated version of the text was released in 2009.
Life After God is a collection of short stories by Douglas Coupland, published in 1994.
 The stories are set around a theme of a generation raised without religion.
 The jacket for the hardcover book reads “You are the first generation to be raised without religion.”
 The text is an exploration of faith in this vacuum of religion.
 The stories are also illustrated by the author.
 Several critics have suggested that this publication marks an early shift in the stylistic vocabulary of Coupland and, according to one critic, he was “excoriated presumably for attempting be serious and to express depression and spiritual yearning when his reviewers were expecting more postmodern jollity”.
 However, the short story would later come to garner more praise (see below) though critics and academics have paid little attention to the publication in terms of academics' articles and commentary.
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 is a novel by Douglas Coupland centred on a fictional 1988 school shooting in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia and its aftermath.
 This is Coupland's most critically acclaimed novel.
 It was first published by Random House of Canada in 2003.
 The novel comprises four first-person narratives, each from the perspective of a character directly or indirectly affected by the shooting.
 The novel intertwines substantial themes, including adolescent love, sex, religion, prayer and grief.
Generation A is the thirteenth novel from Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland.
 It takes place in a near future, in a world in which bees have become extinct.
 The novel is told with a shifting-frame narrative perspective, shifting between the novel's five main protagonists.
 The novel mirrors the style of Coupland's first novel, "", which is also a framed narrative.
 On September 30, 2009, "Generation A" was announced as a finalist for The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize by The Writer's Trust of Canada.
Douglas Coupland ( ) {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (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 "", 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.
 He is a columnist for Financial Times.
 He is also a frequent contributor to "The New York Times", "e-flux journal", "Dis", and "Vice".
 His art exhibits include "Everywhere is Anywhere is Anything is Everything" which was exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and "Bit Rot" at the Villa Stuck.

Question: Are both Douglas Coupland and Helen Fielding from the same country?
Answer: no