Man Booker judges plant trees in St Albans (From St Albans & Harpenden Review)

Man Booker judges plant trees in St Albans

10:04am Tuesday 16th March 2010 in

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THE judges of last year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction will visit St Albans today to plant trees in Heartwood Forest.

The six-strong panel, including broadcaster and critic James Naughtie and comedian Sue Perkins, will plant 13 Scots pines in the embryonic woodland just outside Sandridge, compensating for trees felled to produce novels submitted for the prize.

In 2009, the panel awarded the £50,000 prize, given to many distinguished novelists in its history, to Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, based on the life of King Henry VIII's right hand man Thomas Cromwell.