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Douglas Coupland (pronounced KOHP-lend) (born 30 December 1961) is a Canadian writer, designer and visual artist. His first novel was the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. Since then, Coupland has written twelve more novels, which have been published in most languages. He has written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company and is a columnist for the Financial Times. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, e-flux, Dis and Vice. In 2000, after a decade of generating web graphics, Coupland amplified his visual art production and has recently had two separate museum retrospectives: 'Everywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything' at the Royal Vancouver Art Gallery, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art; and 'Bit Rot' at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam and Villa Stuck in Munich. In 2015 and 2016, Coupland was an artist-in-residence in the Paris Google Cultural Institute.<b>An outrageous comic riot, delivered as a tear-inducing funny and pitch-black farce</b> ... For every laugh here, thereâs a haunting, echoing scream in the distance. The plot is <b>unbridled romp</b> ... <b>It is hard to describe, out of context, quite how funny Couplandâs novel can be.</b>
Sunday Times
<b><i>Worst. Person. Ever.</i> is very much a return to form. It had me laughing out loud on the bus to work.</b>
Irish Times, Books of the Year
<b>There are gloriously unquotable remarks and fantastically lurid images on every page</b>. Guntâs mind is a super-sewer in which it is a pleasure to swim. <b>You canât help giggling, constantly</b>. <i>Worst. Person. Ever.</i> may be a raging bonfire of inanities but <b>it contains some of Couplandâs finest writing</b> since <i>Shampoo Planet</i>.
Evening Standard
There are some <b>clever plot twists</b> and <b>fine comedy set pieces</b>.
Scotland on Sunday
<b>A comic riot of a novel.</b>
Sunday Times - Must Reads
<i>Worst. Person. Ever.</i> succeeds by virtue of its verbal energy, the brio of its invention, the snappiness with which successive gags and ever more appalling atrocities are piled on.
Financial Times
<b>Coupland has penned a bitterly funny tale of our time</b> and created one of the grossest characters to deliver it.
Sport
<i>Worst. Person. Ever</i>., challenges the present-day with excess, satire, and biting critique
Dazed Digital