Enrique Amorim was an Uruguay

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an novel

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ist and writer, best known for his story Las quitanderas whose plot centres on rural prostitution

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; also known for his left-wing politics

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Born in Salto, Uruguay

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, his parents were wealthy cattle ranchers. His father was from a Portuguese

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 background, his mother Basque

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. Amorim travelled extensively in Europe

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 and Latin America

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, developing acquaintanceships and friendships with many of the leading literary figures of his time. He eventually had a house built in Salto, designed by Le Corbusier

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In the 1920s Amorim wrote for the Argentinian

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 leftist magazine Los Pensadores and published with the press Claridad, both associated with the left-leaning Buenos Aires

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-based Boedo group.
In 1947 Amorim officially joined the Communist Party of Uruguay

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. He was also responsible for the erection of a monument in Salto to commemorate Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca

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, the poet and playwright killed by Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco

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's forces in the opening weeks of the Spanish Civil War

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Novels

• La carreta (1929)
• El paisano Aguilar (1934)
• La edad despareja (1938)
• El caballo y su sombra (1941)
• La luna se hizo con agua (1944)
• El asesino desvelado (1946)
• Feria de farsantes (1952)
• Eva Burgos (1960)

Books of short stories

• Amorim (1923)
• Horizontes y bocacalles (1926)
• Tráfico (1927)
• La trampa del pajonal (1928)
• Del 1 al 6 (1932)
• La plaza de las carretas (1937)
• Después del temporal (1953)

Books of poems

• Veinte años (1920)
• Visitas al cielo (1929)
• Poemas uruguayos (1935)
• Dos poemas (1940)
• Primero de Mayo (1949)
• Quiero (1954)
• Sonetos de amor en verano (1958)

External links

• Much of the information in this article comes from http://www.todo-argentina.net/Literatura_argentina/Biografias_de_literatura/enrique_amorim.htm.
• Biographical notes on Amorim and other famous natives of Salto