Arístides Sócrates Henríquez Nolasco was a writer from the Dominican Republic.
Biography
editHe was born in what is now Enriquillo in Barahona Province on March 20, 1884, and died in Santo Domingo on July 2, 1980.[1] The parents of Sócrates Nolasco (he preferred to use his mother's surname instead of Henriquez, his paternal family name) were Juliana Nolasco and Manuel Henríquez y Carvajal.[1] 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, and cousins of Max, 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.[1][2]
Nolasco was a relatively prolific writer, and helped develop a body of work related to the Dominican Republic.[3] His works have been compiled into three volumes, dealing with his stories,[4] historical essays,[5] and literary essays.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b c Biography of Nolasco at Fundacion Corripio, Inc. (in Spanish); accessed 14 February 2009. Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Peña, Angela. 2003. Sócrates Nolasco, Prolífico Escritor que rechazó someterse a Caprichos de la tiranía. Periódico HOY (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic). 31 August 2003.
- ^ Arnold, Albert J., Julio Rodríguez-Luis, and J. Michael Dash. 1994. A History of Literature in the Caribbean. John Benjamins Pub. Co. ISBN 90-272-3442-6. p. 204 of 583.
- ^ Nolasco, Sócrates. 1994. Obras Completas 1, Cuentos. Ediciones de la Fundacion Corripio, Inc., Santo Domingo. 350 pp.
- ^ Nolasco, Sócrates. 1994. Obras Completas 2, Ensayos Históricos. Ediciones de la Fundacion Corripio, Inc., Santo Domingo. 518 pp.
- ^ Nolasco, Sócrates. 1994. Obras Completas 3, Ensayos Literarios. Ediciones de la Fundacion Corripio, Inc., Santo Domingo. 379 pp.