We’ve hit 2020 and we still have a country with domestic violence, street violence and terrorism.īOTUR: Crimechurch is about four principal male characters, each more violently competitive than the last. It’s been 30 years since Alan Duff published the book Once Were Warriors and 25 years since the film version broke New Zealand box office records. The main thing the men have in common is a fascination for the factors that inspire young males to violently compete with one another, especially between the ages of 18 to 25.īotur shared the Alan Duff interview with In The Dogbox. But Alan keeps it real.”īotur told In The Dogbox his novel is about “a pair of troublemaking white boys from Hillmorton” while Duffy is best known for writing about Rotorua Māori. Everybody else sits up in their ivory tower and never goes down on the streets.
That’s why he’s so important to New Zealand literature. He can fight, he can write, and he’s made things right. Did you know Duffy went to prison in the UK after he got himself in some shit? I doubt everybody knows Alan Duff is the real deal. “That’s why one of the first authors I reached out to to get behind the book was Once Were Warriors author Alan Duff. “I reckon I’m probably the only author amongst the Ngaio Marsh entrants who has lived experience on the wrong side of the law,” Botur says.
The award-winning author told In The Dogbox that Crimechurch, published by Rangitawa Publishing, is a literary fiction novel inspired by looking back on his youthful troublemaking days in the Garden City and reflecting on how and why some of his friends and foes ended up in prison or dead. In The Dogbox writer Michael Botur has his powerful novel Crimechurch entered in this year’s Ngaio Marsh Awards for Best Crime Novel.
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