The journalist and writer Benjamín G. Rosado (Àvila, 1985) has won the Biblioteca Breve 2025 award with his first novel, El vuelo del hombre. In an edition where more than 1,150 manuscripts were submitted, the story of a philologist who doesn't know how to overcome the success of his debut novel unanimously convinced the jury, formed by Almudena Amador, Jesús Carrasco, Pere Gimferrer, Miguel Ángel Hernández, and Elena Ramírez. For the experts, the winning title is a "literary investigation" into the power of fiction to transform reality. Awarded by the Seix Barral publishing house, the Biblioteca Breve prize is endowed with 30,000 euros.
The protagonist of El vuelo del hombre is Diego Marín, marked by two great loves, two disappearances, and two failed books. As a writer, he finds himself stuck on a second novel that has not yet seen the light after the success of the first. A decade of creative drought that dissipates when his editor calls him, informing him that a pilot has died in the same way as the main character of his first novel.
Without forgetting the author's journalistic impulse, the protagonist will travel to the scene to investigate what happened and finally write the new success that everyone expects. According to his wife, he has ended up becoming a kind of The Little Prince for adults, with a protagonist who has to overcome a series of trials, including adventures, to reach the last chapter.
Benjamín G. Rosado studied Audiovisual Communication at the Complutense University of Madrid, a training he completed with a postgraduate degree in Film Studies at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Specializing in classical music, he was part of the editorial staff of El Cultural and in recent years has worked as a freelance journalist for media such as El Mundo, Esquire, and Vanity Fair. Although El vuelo del hombre is his first novel, he had previously worked as a ghostwriter, as well as writing speeches for publishers and cultural institutions.