Duff, Alan
About Alan Duff
Biography (Academy of New Zealand Literature)
Reviews
Beaglehole, Ann. “The Resilience of Children.” New Zealand Books, vol. 23, no. 4, 2013
O'Brien, Louise. “The Good, the Bad, and the Epic.” New Zealand Books, vol. 20, no. 1, 2010
“Once Were Warriors.” Times Higher Education, 18 Jun. 2009
“Once Was a Fighting Man.” Asiaweek, vol. 23, no. 48, 1997
Josephs, Allen and Mark Lindquist. “Books in Brief: Fiction and Poetry.” New York Times, 7 Jan. 1996
“Fallen Far.” Asiaweek, vol. 23, no. 48, 1995
Simson, Maria. “Forecasts: Paperbacks.” Publishers Weekly, vol. 242, no. 44, 1995
Rogers, Michael. “Book Reviews: Classic Returns.” Library Journal, vol. 120, no. 7, 1995
Oxenham, Stephen. “World Literature in Review: New Zealand.” World Literature Today, vol. 69, no. 1, 1995
Simson, Maria. “Forecasts: Paperbacks.” Publishers Weekly, vol. 241, no. 24, 1994
Allen, Kimberly G. “Book Reviews: Fiction.” Library Journal, vol. 119, no. 11, 1994
Oxenham, Stephen. “World Literature in Review: New Zealand.” World Literature Today, vol. 67, no. 3, 1993
Interviews
Hereniko, Vilsoni. “An Interview with Alan Duff.” Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics, and Identity in the New Pacific, 1999
Thompson, Christina. “Alan Duff: The Book, the Film, the Interview: The Controversial Author of Once Were Warriors (UPQ) Talks to the Editor of Meanjin.” Meanjin, vol. 54, no. 1, 1995
Criticism
Singeot, Laura. “An Exception to European Epistemological Rule: The Representation of Indigeneity in the Works of Mudrooroo and Alan Duff.” Commonwealth Essays and Studies, vol. 43, no. 1, 2020
Barker, Clare. “Warrior Genes.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 66, no. 4, 2020
Boyer-Kelly, Michelle Nicole. “Māori Agents of Change: Examining the Children of Whale Rider, Once Were Warriors, and Potiki.” Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between, Castro and Clark (eds.), 2019
Henningsgaard, Per. “Changes in Tone, Setting, and Publisher: Indigenous Literatures of Australia and New Zealand from the 1980s to Today.” Transnational Literature, vol. 8, no. 2, 2016
Fox, Alistair. “Hybridity and Identity in New Zealand Maori Literature: Alan Duff's Dreamboat Dad.” Postcolonial Theory in the Global Age: Interdisciplinary Essays, Dwivedi and Kich (eds.), 2013
Lawn, Jennifer. “Neoliberalism and the Politics of Indigenous Community in the Fiction of Alan Duff and Witi Ihimaera.” Social Semiotics, vol. 21, no. 1, 2011
Wilson, Janet. “Literature as Resistance in the Maori Renaissance: Patricia Grace, Witi Ihimaera, Alan Duff.” Anglistik, vol. 20, no. 1, 2009
Kwast-Greff, Chantal. “Shared Place and Maimed Bodies: Flesh of the Past, Soul of the Future (or Vice-Versa) in Once Were Warriors.” Shared Waters: Sounding in Postcolonial Literatures, Barthet (ed.), 2009
Wilson, Janet. “Alan Duff: Brown Man’s Burden?” British Review of New Zealand Studies, vol. 17, 2008
Roussos, Timotheos. “A Man's 'True Face': Concealing/Revealing Masculinities in Novels by Alan Duff and Witi Ihimaera.” Philament, vol. 5, 2005
Shibuya, Eric. “(Un)Pacific Visions: Alan Duff s Writings and Their Film Adaptations.” Review of Education, vol. 25, no. 1, 2003
Thompson, Christian A. “In Whose Face? An Essay on the Work of Alan Duff.” Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics, and Identity in the New Pacific, 1999
Oder, Norman. “Alan Duff and Once Were Warriors - Ventilating Race in New Zealand.” Antipodes, vol. 10, no. 2, 1996
Works
Autobiography/Life Writing
Out of the Mist and Steam: A Memoir (1999)
Novels
Frederick’s Coat (2013)
Who Sings for Lu? (2009)
Dreamboat Dad (2008)
Jake’s Long Shadow (2002)
Szabad (2001)
Both Sides of the Moon (1998)
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted (1996)
State Ward (1994)
One Night Out Stealing (1991)
Once Were Warriors (1990)
Children's and Young Adult's Books
Alan Duff’s Maori Heroes (2000)
Duffy’s Once Were Warriors (1999)
Duffy’s Search for the Pohutukawa (1999)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
A Conversation With My Country: Where We've Come From, Where We Can Go (2019)
“Alan Duff: Now is the Hour to Say Goodbye.” Nzherald, 16 Oct. 2017
“Harvey Weinstein Is not the Only One.” Nzherald, 9 Oct. 2017
“Plunging Headlong into Early Graves.” Nzherald, 2 Oct. 2017
“Good Luck Getting a Read on Winston Peters.” Nzherald, 25 Sep. 2017
“Election Is Anyone's Guess.” Nzherald, 18 Sep. 2017
“Rugby a Hidden Bond Connecting Kiwis.” Nzherald, 11 Sep. 2017
“Don't Believe Pollies Who 'Save the Poor'.” Nzherald, 4 Sep. 2017
“Colin Meads Wasn't 'One of Us' - He Was Something More.” Nzherald, 28 Aug. 2017
"Why Boot Camps and Tikanga Prisons Won't Work." Nzherald, 21 Aug. 2017
"The Jealousy and Resentment of Sportswriters." Nzherald, 14 Aug. 2017
"Why I'm Thinking about Changing Who I Vote for." Nzherald, 7 Aug. 2017
"Spain Got a Guggenheim, We Just Got Te Papa." Nzherald, 31 Jul. 2017
"Shane Jones' True Colours." Nzherald, 24 Jul. 2017
"Taxpayers, Don't Line Up To Be Ripped Off." Nzherald, 17 Jul. 2017
"Timeless Lessons in Human Nature." Nzherald, 10 Jul. 2017
"Tolerance Stretched on the Long-Haul Flights." Nzherald, 3 Jul. 2017
"Shrieking Is no Laughing Matter." Nzherald, 26 Jun. 2017
Adaptations
Mune, Ian (Dir.) and Alan Duff (Wri.), What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?, 1999
Tamahori, Lee (Dir.) and Riwia Brown (Wri.), Once Were Warriors, 1994
Audio- and Audiovisual Material
Alan Duff - Going West Writers Festival 2019, YouTube, 27 Sep. 2019
Alan Duff on Once Were Warriors, YouTube, 9 Dec. 2012