August 5, 2025 and sixteen years ago on this day in 2009, The New York Times reported that “Me Cheeta,” the comic autobiography of Tarzan’s buddy, was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize. Me Cheeta,” written by James Lever did not win.
The International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize) is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom. The introduction of the International Prize to complement the Man Booker Prize, as the Booker Prize was then known, was announced in June 2004. Sponsored by the Man Group, from 2005 until 2015 the award was given every two years to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation.
Check out "Cheetah's Scrapbook" at: https://www.erbzine.com/mag16/1697.html
The drabble for today, “Sorry For Your Loss,” is an excerpt from the book and is mostly self-explanatory. It has been edited to fit the 100-word format.
“Concerning Maureen's rather breezily delivered comment offering consolation on the death of my on-screen mother who’d just been impaled on the horn of a stampeding rhinoceros while saving Jane's life! Delivered briskly in her trademark sing-song voice, it seemed as if she was bucking me up rather than helping me come to terms with a bereavement, she herself had caused. If Maureen's daughter, Mia Farrow, had been fatally gored while saving my life, I'd have made an apology and tried to make sound sincere. Although, dare I say that would have been one hell of a popular rhino in Hollywood.”
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