 Some (such as Alfred McAdam) would start with Julio Cortázar's "Hopscotch" ("Rayuela" in Spanish) from 1963 while others prefer Vargas Llosa's "The Time of the Hero" ("La ciudad y los perros" in Spanish) which won the "Biblioteca Breve" Award in 1962.Fernando Alegria considers Augusto Roa Bastos' "Hijo de hombre" the inaugural work of the Boom even though, as Shaw notes, it was published in 1959.One could, however, even go as far back as Miguel Ángel Asturias's 1949 novel "Men of Maize".