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.
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WritingBirthday
May 7, 1927Deathday
April 3, 2013Gender
FemaleKnown Movie Credits
29Place of birth
Cologne, GermanyCast credits
Crew credits
The Remains of the Day
ScreenplayA Room with a View
ScreenplayHowards End
ScreenplayLe Divorce
WriterThe City of Your Final Destination
ScreenplayA Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
ScreenplayBombay Talkie
ScreenplayMr. & Mrs. Bridge
ScreenplayRoseland
WriterSurviving Picasso
ScreenplayThe Golden Bowl
WriterJefferson in Paris
WriterAutobiography of a Princess
WriterThe Courtesans of Bombay
WriterHullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
StoryHeat and Dust
Writer, NovelShakespeare-Wallah
StoryMadame Sousatzka
ScreenplayThe Europeans
ScreenplayThe Bostonians
ScreenplayThe Guru
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