Arístides Sócrates Henríquez Nolasco was a writer from the
Dominican Republic. He was born in what is now
Enriquillo
Enriquillo, also known as "Enrique" by the Spaniards, was a Taíno cacique who rebelled against the Spaniards between 1519 and 1533. Enriquillo's rebellion is the best known rebellion of the early Caribbean period. He was born on the shores of ...
in
Barahona Province on March 20, 1884, and died in
Santo Domingo on July 2, 1980.
[http://fundacioncorripio.org/productos_detalles.php?id_p=61 Biography of Nolasco at Fundacion Corripio, Inc. (in Spanish); accessed 14 February 2009] The parents of Sócrates Nolasco (as he is usually called) were Juliana Nolasco and Manuel Henríquez y Carvajal.
[ He married his first cousin Flérida María Lamarche Henríquez (1891–1976), a renowned pianist, historian, writer and teacher; they both were niblings of Francisco and ]Federico Henríquez y Carvajal
Federico Henríquez y Carvajal (16 September 1848 – 4 February 1952) was a writer, journalist and teacher from the Dominican Republic.
Biography
Born in Santo Domingo, Henríquez y Carvajal was the son of Noel Henríquez Altías, a Dutch Seph ...
, and cousins of , Camila and Pedro Henríquez Ureña, and had Sephardic Dutch-Jewish descent. Some of his formative years, from 1906 to 1913, were spent in Cuba, in the city of Santiago de Cuba, and he later returned to that nearby country, to Havana, living there from 1951 to 1954.[Peña, Angela. 2003. ''Sócrates Nolasco, Prolífico Escritor que rechazó someterse a Caprichos de la tiranía''. ''Periódico HOY'' (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic). 31 August 2003.]
Nolasco was a relatively prolific writer, and helped develop a body of work related to the Dominican Republic.[Arnold, Albert J., Julio Rodríguez-Luis, and J. Michael Dash. 1994. A History of Literature in the Caribbean. John Benjamins Pub. Co. . p. 204 of 583.] His works have been compiled into three volumes, dealing with his stories, historical essays, and literary essays.[Nolasco, Sócrates. 1994. Obras Completas 3, Ensayos Literarios. Ediciones de la Fundacion Corripio, Inc., Santo Domingo. 379 pp.]
References
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1884 births
1980 deaths
Dominican Republic male writers
Dominican Republic literature