Over time, Latin American literature demonstrated that, while influenced by Spanish authors after the conquest, it consolidated its own styles and cultivated a significant number of writers who granted it its own autonomy. In this sense, the twentieth century was the period of greatest literary production, driven by the famous Latin American Boom of the 1960s (in which Cortázar, García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, José Donoso, Alejandro Carpentier, and Mario Vargas Llosa became indispensable figures of that movement), along with a host of subsequent authors (such as Manuel Puig, Reinaldo Arenas, Roberto Bolaño, Antonio Skármeta, Fernando Vallejo, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, and Laura Restrepo). Thus, Latin American literature produced thousands of short stories and novels of exceptional literary quality, many of which were adapted into screenplays and film adaptations or series by various television networks and streaming platforms.