Alan Duff
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Emerging from a modest Rotorua upbringing and a turbulent youth that included time in state care and brief incarcerations, Duff eventually settled on writing after years of manual labor and stints abroad. His breakthrough came with the 1990 novel that portrayed urban Māori life, a work that earned the PEN Best First Book Award and was adapted into a 1994 film that garnered multiple accolades, esta…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources