Sócrates Nolasco

Aristides Sócrates Henríquez Nolasco ( born March 20, 1884 in Enriquillo, † July 2, 1980 in Santo Domingo ) was a Dominican writer, essayist and historian, Siplomat and politicians.

The son of General Manuel Henríquez y Carvajal attended school in his hometown, later in Santo Domingo, and studied from 1906 to 1913 literature in Cuba. In 1913 he was elected to the Constituent Assembly. The following year he was Consul General of the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. From this post he resigned in protest against the occupation of the Dominican Republic by the United States in 1916. In 1927 he married the musicologist Flerida Lamarche Henríquez.

From 1930 onward, Consul General Nolasco in Venezuela. During this period he created works such as El general Pedro Florentino y un momento of Restoration (1930 ), Cuentos del Sur (1939) and Viejas memorias ( 1941). In 1944 he became a corresponding member of the Dominican Academy history. 1950 Nolasco went into exile in Puerto Rico, where he met Luis Muñoz Marín and the book Escritores de Puerto Rico wrote. From 1951 until his return to the Dominican Republic, he lived in Cuba.

1958 Nolasco was Senator in the Dominican Republic. As the only congressman he opposed, supported only by the priest Eliseo Pérez Sánchez, a draft law of the dictator Rafael Trujillo for the introduction of the death penalty. In 1961 he retired for health reasons from politics. The Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo honored him in 1973 with an honorary professorship.

Works

  • Stories Cuentos del Sur, 1939
  • Cuentos maroons, 1958
  • El diablo ronda en los Guayacanes, 1967
  • El cuento de Santo Domingo, 1957
  • Escritores de Puerto Rico: Nemesio R. Canales, Antonio Pérez Pierret, Miguel Guerra Mandragon, Luis Torres Lorréns, 1963
  • El General Pedro Florentino y un momento of Restoration, 1938
  • Viejas memorias ( Primera series ), 1941
  • Una provincia Folklórica: Cuba, Puerto Rico y Santo Domingo, 1952
  • Comentarios a la historia de Jean Price-Mars, 1955
  • José María Cabral (el guerrero ) 1816-1899, 1963
  • Viejas memorias. ( Segunda series ), 1968
  • Comentarios diversos, 1975
  • Ocupación militar de Santo domingo por los Estados Unidos 1916-1924, 1971

Swell

  • Escritores dominicanos - Sócrates Nolasco
  • Fundación Corripio - Aristides Sócrates Henríquez Nolasco
  • Author
  • Story
  • Essay
  • Latin American Literature
  • Historian
  • Politicians (Dominican Republic)
  • Dominican diplomat
  • Born in 1884
  • Died in 1980
  • Man
  • Dominicans ( national )
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