Aaron A. Carr

Svetlana Seibel (Universität des Saarlandes)

Ed. by Sarah Henzi, Simon Fraser University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.6: Indigenous Writing and Culture of North America - United States.
Vol. editors: Joshua Bartlett (High Point University), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Padraig Kirwan (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University)

Dates

Born 1963
Activity 1983-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Cultural Identities

First Nations/Indigenous US-American

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Novelist

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Carr's Works

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Aaron Albert Carr, also known under pen name A.A. Carr, is a Native American poet and novelist, screenplay writer, and documentary filmmaker of Navajo and Laguna Pueblo heritage. Born in 1963 in New Mexico, United States, he grew up on a reservation in Laguna before moving to Albuquerque, NM, where he attended Truman High School (Hobson 412). As a writer, his best-known work is the novel

Eye Killers

(1995), a literary text that belongs to the genre of vampire fiction. The novel was translated into French by Karin Bodson and published by Les Editions du Rocher under the title

Le Tueur-d’ennemis

in 1998. Carr is also a director, cinematographer and/or (co-)producer of several documentary films, most notably

Laguna Woman

(1992),

War Code: Navajo Code Talkers

(1996), and

Kinaalda: Navajo

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Citation: Seibel, Svetlana. "Aaron A. Carr". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 July 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=752, accessed 24 November 2024.]