Arístides Sócrates Henríquez Nolasco was a writer from the Dominican Republic.
Biography He was born in what is now Enriquillo in Barahona Province on 20 March 1884, and died in Santo Domingo 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 cousin Flérida María Lamarche Henríquez (1891–1976), a pianist, historian, writer and teacher; they both were niblings of Francisco and Federico Henríquez y Carvajal, 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,Nolasco, Sócrates. 1994. Obras Completas 1, Cuentos. Ediciones de la Fundacion Corripio, Inc., Santo Domingo. 350 pp. historical essays,Nolasco, Sócrates. 1994. Obras Completas 2, Ensayos Históricos. Ediciones de la Fundacion Corripio, Inc., Santo Domingo. 518 pp. and literary essays.Nolasco, Sócrates. 1994. Obras Completas 3, Ensayos Literarios. Ediciones de la Fundacion Corripio, Inc., Santo Domingo. 379 pp.
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