From the 1960s were grouped under the designation of Latin American boom, a number of Latin American writers, most of them writers. These authors are characterized by widely distributed and transcend the boundaries of Latin America, but had varied stylistic trends. Among the leading exponents of the boom may be mentioned the Argentine Julio Cortázar (1916-1984) and Ernesto Sabato (born 1911), the Mexican Carlos Fuentes (b. 1936), the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936), the Paraguayan Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005), the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928) and the Uruguayan Juan Carlos Onetti (1909-1994) and Mario Benedetti (n.1920). Other authors got worldwide distribution, although not strictly referred to as members of the boom, such as Isabel Allende and Chilean Jose Donoso, the Peruvian Manuel Scorza, the Cubans José Lezama Lima and Guillermo Cabrera Infante, as well as the Argentine Manuel Puig.
Many of the writers of the boom, such as García Márquez, are enrolled in a literary movement that emerged in Latin America, known as magical realism. This movement, which first talked about the Cuban Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980), examines the reality of our countries through history, nature and myth.
Among the major works written by the authors of the boom may be mentioned Conversation in the Cathedral, Vargas Llosa One Hundred Years of Solitude by García Márquez, On Heroes and Tombs, Sabato, and the shipyard, Onetti.