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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Known For Writing
Birthday May 07, 1927
Died Apr 03, 2013 (85)
Birthplace Cologne, Germany
Popularity 0.3 (history)
Updated Aug 05, 2024
Entry Date Apr 25, 2024
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Biography

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE (7 May 1927 – 3 April 2013) was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director Ja ... mes Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant. After meeting Cyrus Jhabvala in England, she married him and moved to India in 1951; Jhabvala was an Indian-Parsi architect. The couple lived in New Delhi and had three daughters. Jhabvala began then to elaborate her experiences in India and wrote novels and tales on Indian subjects. She wrote a dozen novels, 23 screenplays, and eight collections of short stories and was made a CBE in 1998 and granted a joint fellowship by BAFTA in 2002 with Ivory and Merchant.She is the only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar.

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Le Divorce

Le Divorce

2003

Writer

The Golden Bowl

The Golden Bowl

2000

Writer

Surviving Picasso

Surviving Picasso

1996

Screenplay

Jefferson in Paris

Jefferson in Paris

1995

Writer

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

1993

Screenplay

Howards End

Howards End

1992

Screenplay

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

1990

Screenplay

Madame Sousatzka

Madame Sousatzka

1988

Screenplay

A Room with a View

A Room with a View

1986

Screenplay

The Bostonians

The Bostonians

1984

Screenplay

Heat and Dust

Heat and Dust

1983

Writer, Novel

The Europeans

The Europeans

1979

Screenplay

Roseland

Roseland

1977

Writer

Bombay Talkie

Bombay Talkie

1970

Screenplay

The Guru

The Guru

1969

Writer

Shakespeare-Wallah

Shakespeare-Wallah

1965

Story

The Householder

The Householder

1963

Writer, Original Film Writer

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