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 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.
Filmography
all 30
Movies 29
Writer 21
self 4
Screenplay 3
TV Shows 1
Merchant Ivory (2024)
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant (2005)
Le Divorce (2003)
Surviving Picasso (1996)
Howards End (1992)
A Room with a View (1985)
The Wandering Company (1984)
Heat and Dust (1983)
Quartet (1981)
Roseland (1977)
ABC Afterschool Special (1972)
The Guru (1969)
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Known ForWriting
GenderFemale
Birthday1927-05-07
Deathday2013-04-03 (85 years old)
Birth PlaceCologne, Germany
ChildrenRenana Jhabvala
SiblingsSiegbert Salomon Prawer
CitizenshipsWeimar Republic, United Kingdom, United States
AwardsCommander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, MacArthur Fellows Program, Writers Guild of America Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Man Booker Prize, Booker Prize, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, O. Henry Award
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