The Man Booker Prize 2017 podcast - Episode three

In the third episode of our 2017 series we head to Edinburgh International Book Festival to catch up with two of our longlisted authors Paul Auster and Sebastian Barry, and go behind the scenes at the Man Booker International Prize 2017 winner event* featuring David Grossman.First, Joe Haddow speaks to longlisted author Paul Auster about an outing in the woods at fourteen years old which changed his life and how the luckiest decision he ever made was letting himself fall for his wife, fellow writer Siri Hustvedt.Then Sebastian Barry compares the moment he was told the news to his first longlisting in 2005 when he nearly swung off the M50 motorway and reveals Days Without End is dedicated to his son.As a closing treat David Grossman reads from A Horse Walks into a Bar in his mother tongue Hebrew.*Credit: Edinburgh International Book Festival