Alan Duff MBE (born 26 October 1950) is a New Zealand novelist and newspaper columnist. He is best known as the author of the novel Once Were Warriors...
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Jake's Long Shadow (category Novels by Alan Duff)
Jake's Long Shadow is a novel by Alan Duff, first published in 2002. It is the third book in the Once Were Warriors trilogy, following Jake "The Muss"...
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Michelle Ann Duff (born Michael Alan Duff on 13 December 1939) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. Duff's best season was in 1965, winning the...
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is a 1994 New Zealand tragic drama film based on New Zealand author Alan Duff's bestselling 1990 first novel. The film tells the story of the Heke family...
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Alan Robert Duff (12 January 1938 – 28 June 1989) was an English first-class cricketer who played in the late 1950s and 1960s. Most of these were for Oxford...
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an abusive Māori husband, Jake "the Muss" Heke. The film is based on Alan Duff's novel What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1996), the sequel to Once...
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Once Were Warriors (category Novels by Alan Duff)
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...
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Grace, Witi Ihimaera and Alan Duff. Once Were Warriors, a 1994 film adapted from a 1990 novel of the same name by Alan Duff, brought the plight of some...
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Allardyce later described Duff's injury as 'career threatening'. During Alan Shearer's short stint as interim manager, Duff was asked to play as left...
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What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (novel) (category Novels by Alan Duff)
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? is a 1996 novel by Alan Duff. It is the sequel to Duff's novel Once Were Warriors (1990), which was made into a film...
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