Ko Alan Duff he kaituhi nō Aotearoa, nō Ngāti Rangitihi me Tūwharetoa. I whānau mai ia i te 1950. Ko ia te tamaiti a Gowan Duff (koia hoki tōna matua) - he tangata pūtaiao - rāua ko Kuia Hinau (koia hoki tōna whaea). I whakatupuria hoki ia i tētehi whare Kāwanatanga ki Rotorua. He mokopuna hoki a Alan nā Oliver Duff, he kaituhi anō.

I a ia e taitamariki tonu ana, ka huri ia ki ngā mahi takahi i te ture, ki te patu tangata, ki te whānako. Nō reira, i tonoa ia kia noho ia ki te whare herehere o Waikeria mō te tau kotahi. Tekau mā rima noa iho ōna tau i taua wā. Nō muri mai, kua haere ia ki Rānana.

Pukapuka

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  • Once Were Warriors (Tandem Press, 1990)
  • One Night Out Stealing (Tāmaki-makau-rau: Tandem Press, 1991)
  • Māori: The Crisis and the Challenge (Tāmaki-makau-rau: HarperCollins, 1993)
  • State Ward (pukapuka)|State Ward (1994)
  • What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (Tāmaki-makau-rau: Vintage, 1996)
  • Both sides of the moon (Tāmaki-makau-rau: Random House, 1998)
  • Duffy's once were worriers (Illustrations by Imogen Tunnicliffe) (Tāmaki-makau-rau: Tandem Press, 1999)
  • Duffy's search for the pohutukawa (Illustrations by Imogen Tunnicliffe) (Tāmaki-makau-rau: Tandem Press, 1999)
  • Out of the Mist and the Steam (1999)
  • Szabad (Tāmaki-makau-rau: Vintage, 2001)
  • Jake's Long Shadow (Tāmaki-makau-rau: Random House, 2002)

Hoto ki waho

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