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Learn about Alan Duff, a novelist, columnist, advocate and businessman. His first novel, Once Were Warriors, was a huge success and sparked controversy. He also wrote What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? and launched the Books in Homes scheme.
Once Were Warriors is New Zealand author Alan Duff 's bestselling first novel, published in 1990. It tells the story of an urban Māori family, the Hekes, and portrays the reality of domestic violence in New Zealand. It was the basis of a 1994 film of the same title, directed by Lee Tamahori and starring Rena Owen and Temuera Morrison, which ...
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Alan Duff has 36 books on Goodreads with 13594 ratings. Alan Duff’s most popular book is Once Were Warriors.
Alan Duff (born October 26, 1950, Rotorua, New Zealand) is a New Zealand novelist and newspaper columnist, most well known as the author of Once Were Warriors. He began to write full-time in 1985. He tried writing a thriller as his first novel, but it was rejected.
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Jan 1, 2001 · Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live.
About the Author. Alan Duff was born in 1950 and lives with his wife and four children in Havelock North, New Zealand. He has published the novels Once Were Warriors and One Night Out Stealing; a novella, State Ward; and a work of nonfiction, Maori: The Crisis and the Challenge.
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