Arístides Sócrates Henríquez Nolasco was a writer from the
Dominican Republic
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.
Biography
He was born in what is now
Enriquillo
Enrique (1498–1535), best known as Enriquillo, was a Taíno people, 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 ...
in
Barahona Province
Barahona () is a province of the Dominican Republic. Located in the country's southwestern region, it is dividing into 11 municipalities and its capital bears the city of the same name. Barahona borders the provinces of Pedernales to the southwe ...
on 20 March 1884, and died in
Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo, formerly known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the List of metropolitan areas in the Caribbean, largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. the Distrito Na ...
on 2 July 1980. (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 February 2009. 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.
He married his first cousinFlérida María Lamarche Henríquez (1891–1976), a pianist, historian, writer and teacher; they both were niblings of
Francisco
Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''.
Meaning of the name Francisco
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Pedro Henríquez Ureña
Pedro Henríquez Ureña (June 29, 1884 – May 11, 1946) was a Dominican essayist, philosopher, humanist, philologist and literary critic.
Biography
Early works
Pedro Henríquez Ureña was born in Santo Domingo, the third of four siblings. He ...
, and had Sephardic Dutch-Jewish descent.
Some of his formative years, from 1906 to 1913, were spent in
Cuba
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, in the city of
Santiago de Cuba
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The municipality extends over , and contains t ...
, and he later returned to that nearby country, to
Havana
Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.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.