His debut novel, Thirteen Cents, won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region.
He spent two years in England as a sixth-form student at Huntington School, York, before returning to South Africa to attend university, where he studied copy-writing.
A month before his death Duiker read the eulogy at the funeral of fellow young novelist Phaswane Mpe,[4] who had died of a mysterious illness shortly after entering initiation to become a traditional healer.
The novella is written from the perspective of Azure, a black street child with blue eyes in Cape Town.
The novel tracks his experience as a sex worker at a gay massage parlour that serves mostly white clients.