Willy Vlautin

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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.
  • 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

  1. ↑ Willy Vlautin (2013): Bio , accessed on June 25, 2013.
  2. ^ IMDB (2012): The Motel Life , accessed June 25, 2013.
  3. ↑ Willy Vlautin (2013): Lean on Pete , accessed June 25, 2013.
  4. ↑ Kate Clanchy: The Free by Willy Vlautin - review . In: The Guardian . February 7, 2014, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed August 23, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Willy Vlautin: Don't Skip Out on Me - Willy Vlautin - Hardcover. Retrieved on August 23, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Vlautin, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Reno , Nevada