In reviewing Carlos Fuentes's book "The Eagle's Throne" the author states:
"Not long ago, a polemic surrounding Carlos Fuentes's legacy erupted in Mexico when a prominent playwright, Emilio Carballido, stated that the members of the so-called generación del boom, the movement that included Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Fuentes was the most spoiled, the one whose talents were wasted in gallantries."
He also notes, "And when asked if he would ever win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Fuentes responded that he already had, since the award in 1982 to García Márquez was really in honor of their whole generation.