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  • BIRTH 07/05/1927
  • DEATH 03/04/2013
  • Country Germany
  • SCRIPT 20

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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 James 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.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Script (20)

A Room with a View
A Room with a View
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Le Divorce
Le Divorce
Howards End
Howards End
Surviving Picasso
Surviving Picasso
Bombay Talkie
Bombay Talkie
The Guru
The Guru
Shakespeare-Wallah
Shakespeare-Wallah
Autobiography of a Princess
Autobiography of a Princess
The Householder
The Householder
Quartet
Quartet
The Bostonians
The Bostonians
The Courtesans of Bombay
The Courtesans of Bombay
The Golden Bowl
The Golden Bowl
The Europeans
The Europeans
Roseland
Roseland
Heat and Dust
Heat and Dust
The City of Your Final Destination
The City of Your Final Destination
Jefferson in Paris
Jefferson in Paris