Willy Vlautin
Willy Vlautin (* 1967 in Reno , Nevada ) is an American writer and musician . He is the lead singer for the band Richmond Fontaine .
Career
Vlautin grew up in Reno and lives in Scappoose, Oregon .
music
Together with bassist Dave Harding, Vlautin founded the band Richmond Fontaine in Portland in 1994 . Richmond Fontaine produced a total of seven albums, an instrumental soundtrack for a book ( Northline ) as well as two live recordings and an EP . As a singer and writer, Vlautin combines characters and situations in his books and lyrics.
Novelist
Vlautin's first book, The Motel Life , was published in 2005 and has since been translated into eleven languages. In Motel Life, Vlautin tells the story of two brothers who live in a hotel in Reno. He got the title of Dylan of the dislocated ( The Independent ). Motel Life was made into a film in 2012.
Northline is Vlautin's second book. The waitress Allison Johnson makes her way from Las Vegas to Reno to start a new life. A CD with instrumental and sad songs by Richmond Fontaine is included with the first book edition.
After his father left him, 15-year-old Charley Thompson struggled through life in the book Lean on Pete . Lean on Pete received the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and Literary Arts and The Oregonian Peoples' Choice Award in 2010 .
In his fourth novel Die Freie Vlautin tells of Leroy Kervan, a suicidal Iraq veteran, Pauline, his nurse, and Freddie, a divorced and heavily indebted family man.
Vlautin's fifth novel, Don't Skip Out on Me , was published in 2018 . It's about Horace Hopper, a half-Indian, half-Irish ranch worker who finds his calling in boxing on the streets of Las Vegas.
Publications
- The Motel Life , 2005.
- Northline , 2008.
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Lean on Pete , 2010.
- German by Robin Detje : Lean on Pete . Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2010,
- The Free, 2014
- German by Robin Detje: Die Freie, Berlin Verlag 2015
- Don't Skip Out on Me . Faber, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Willy Vlautin (2013): Bio , accessed on June 25, 2013.
- ^ IMDB (2012): The Motel Life , accessed June 25, 2013.
- ↑ Willy Vlautin (2013): Lean on Pete , accessed June 25, 2013.
- ↑ Kate Clanchy: The Free by Willy Vlautin - review . In: The Guardian . February 7, 2014, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed August 23, 2017]).
- ↑ Willy Vlautin: Don't Skip Out on Me - Willy Vlautin - Hardcover. Retrieved on August 23, 2017 .
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SURNAME | Vlautin, Willy |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and musician |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Reno , Nevada |