Born in Uruguay into a family of wealthy ranchers, after many trips he ended up returning to his hometown in a house that he himself designed. Of communist ideas, he worked writing in several publications of leftist ideology. He ended up joining the Communist Party of Uruguay in the early 1950s.
He spent long periods in Buenos Aires, which is why he is considered a writer of both Uruguayan and Argentine literature. Prolific writer, his most outstanding work is La carreta, of a rural nature and in which he addresses issues related to the countryside and its people. However, his novels cover all kinds of themes and situations, in addition to writing a large collection of poetry.
The house that was built in Salto, his hometown, was donated to the city’s mayor and currently the Historical Museum, the MES center and the Cultural one are located. He also donated a building that currently houses the School that bears his name. These buildings are considered as the most important part of the cultural spaces of the city. Inside the chalet las Nubes, the house where the writer lived, there is a great cultural legacy among which two objects of great importance were almost destroyed: a damp cardboard box and a 35-millimeter film reel.
In the box there were reels with hundreds of photographs taken by the writer, in a state that was considered irreparable, although part of the legacy was recovered and digitized. Among these photographs, some very representative stand out, such as those that reflect Amorim’s great friendship with the writer Federico García Lorca, of whom a sculpture was made that is also reflected in some of the photographs.
The film was the original of a work that was considered lost and of which a single copy was preserved in Spain, cataloged as a documentary on 20th century culture. In the film Amorim can be seen traveling through France during a cold winter to Nice aboard a boat first and a train later.
Amorim’s friendship with Lorca has given us to speak on the subject repeatedly, going so far as to indicate since they could be lovers to the possibility that the body of the Granada writer can be found not far from the Uruguayan.