"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."