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Alan Duff is a New Zealand columnist, advocate, businessperson and the author of 11 novels. He is best known for his bestselling 1990 novel, Once Were Warriors, which won the PEN Best First Book for Fiction Award and was made into an internationally acclaimed film, for which Duff wrote the original screenplay. He subsequently wrote two sequels, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1996), which won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, and Jake's Long Shadow (2002). Other works include the novels Dreamboat Dad, Frederick's Coat, and One Night Out Stealing as well as a non-fiction book Maori: The Crisis and the Challenge. Duff lives with his wife and four children in Havelock North, New Zealand.

Hailing from New Zealand, Kate has built a successful career over the past decade as a performer, working across theatre, television and live music. She has toured extensively throughout Australia and internationally, appearing in a wide range of productions and live shows. Alongside her work on stage and screen, Kate also enjoys audiobook narration, where she combines her performance background and storytelling experience to bring a variety of stories and characters to life.