The 2025 Biblioteca Breve Prize discovers a new voice, Benjamín G. Rosado

Barcelona"This novel has several origins, but the first was an early vocation to write that, however, did not find the time to grow," explained Benjamín G. Rosado (Ávila, 1985) this Thursday at noon in the Hall of Mirrors of the Gran Teatre del Liceu on the occasion of the awarding of the 67th Biblioteca Breve award, worth 30,000 euros, thanks to his first novel, The flight of man, in which the journalist, critic and cultural manager asks himself how fiction can change the plot of our lives. "I haven't written until now because of a lack of time, in my case, but because of attitude: at home literature has always been something very serious and I didn't feel capable of playing that role," continued Rosado, who to construct this story took a sabbatical year and travelled around some of the settings of the novel, from New York to Buenos Aires. "I did all this so as not to write anything about my own adventures," he specified, to avoid any link with autofiction. And he has described the story as "a Byzantine novel," in reference to some crucial elements of the book, such as "adventures and love."

The protagonist of'The flight of man' It is Diego Marín, a young philologist who is dedicated to collecting stories, clippings and conversations with the hope of ending up constructing a novel marked by fortuitous connections and chance, a plot premise that could be recalled by one of the authors of Seix Barral, the publishing house where the book will appear this March, the long-awaited Paul Auster. At the beginning ofThe flight of man, Diego Marín is not going through a great moment in his life, because after his first success, and settled in New York, he tries to continue with his literary career, with pain and work. Fiction will begin to change his life the day his editor invites him to travel to a lost town in the Amazon, following the trail of a story that seems to be taken from the last chapter of the protagonist's first novel. This is the beginning of a series of adventures that Pere Gimferrer, a member of the jury, has described as "unique, which denote a world of his own on the part of the author." The novel is also "a puzzle and a game of mirrors between the plot and the writing of a novel by its protagonist - continued Gimferrer -. But it is not a theoretical book at all and it is read with agility, because the literary word is not born from theory, but rather theory is born from the word."

Benjamín G. Rosado has also taken so long to write his first novel because for years he has been part of the editorial team ofThe Cultural. As a journalist freelance has worked for The World, Scherzo, Esquire and Vanity FairRosado, a graduate in Audiovisual Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid, has also occasionally worked as a ghostwriter and speech writer for various publishers. "These latest works have allowed me to find the space to write a long story like the one in the novel," admitted the author.