He tried writing a thriller as his first novel, but it was rejected. Writingĭuff began to write full-time in 1985. On 16 June 2011 Alan Duff declared himself bankrupt, owing creditors NZ$3.6 million.Īs of March 2013 he was living in France and visiting New Zealand several times a year. However a high court judge subsequently ruled that the judge erred and police could detain a driver while carrying out checks, although he did not require that the charges be relaid.
The charges were later dismissed by the Taupo District Court, Judge McGuire saying: "the result however, is that I am left uneasy over whether police prosecutorial power was used wisely and fairly in this instance.". During the alleged incident, he was stopped and then took off, after a pursuit he allegedly swung a policewoman around by the handcuffs as she was attempting to restrain him. He was also allegedly abusive and very uncooperative. Duff pled not guilty to failing to remain at a scene after being stopped, failing to stop for police and two charges of resisting police. On 30 March 2008 he appeared in the Taupo District Court at a defended hearing and was represented by prominent barrister Antony Shaw. In September 2007 he was arrested while speeding near Taupo. While in England, Duff had a partner, Paula, and daughter, Katea.ĭuff began writing full-time in 1985 and had Once Were Warriors published in 1990. However, he then again migrated to a criminal life, and in 1979 was sentenced to 19 months in jail. He worked as an installer of sheet metal insulation, then as a barman and bar manager. In the late 1970s, Duff lived in England. He had a partner, with whom he had two children. At 15 he was sentenced to a term in Waikeria Borstal for assault and breaking and entering.Īfter leaving school, Duff worked as an installer of sheet metal insulation and sang in a band. Later he lived with another uncle, anthropologist Roger Duff, and went back to school at Christchurch Boys' High School. Many of these experiences informed his novel Once Were Warriors.ĭuff was expelled from his school Rotorua Boys' High School and ran away from home, ending up as a State ward at Hamilton Boys' Home. He wrote at some length about his troubled childhood in his 1999 memoir, Out of the Mist and the Steam.
Duff's parents separated when he was 10, and Duff moved in with a Māori uncle and aunt at Whakarewarewa.
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