Writer
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Born May 7, 1927 in Cologne, Weimar Republic [now Germany]
- Died April 3, 2013
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.
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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.
Known for
The Remains of the Day1993
A Room with a View1986
Howards End1992
Le Divorce2003
Surviving Picasso1996
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge1990
The Golden Bowl2000
The City of Your Final Destination2009
Filmography
- 2009The City of Your Final DestinationFilmScreenplay
- 2005A Tribute To Ismail MerchantFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2003Le DivorceFilmWriter
- 2001Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'FilmSelf
- 2000The Golden BowlFilmWriter
- 1998A Soldier's Daughter Never CriesFilmScreenplay
- 1996Surviving PicassoFilmScreenplay
- 1995Jefferson in ParisFilmWriter
- 1993The Remains of the DayFilmScreenplay
- 1992Howards EndFilmScreenplay
- 1990Mr. & Mrs. BridgeFilmScreenplay
- 1988Madame SousatzkaFilmScreenplay
- 1986A Room with a ViewFilmScreenplay
- 1984The BostoniansFilmScreenplay
- 1984The Wandering CompanyFilmSelf
- 1983Heat and DustFilmWriter, Novel
- 1983The Courtesans of BombayFilmWriter
- 1982American PlayhouseSeriesWriter
- 1981QuartetFilmWriter
- 1980Jane Austen in ManhattanFilmWriter
- 1979The EuropeansFilmScreenplay
- 1978Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's PicturesFilmStory
- 1977RoselandFilmWriter
- 1975Autobiography of a PrincessFilmWriter
- 1973William: The Life, Works and Times of William ShakespeareFilmTeleplay
- 1972ABC Afterschool SpecialSeriesTeleplay
- 1970Bombay TalkieFilmScreenplay
- 1969The GuruFilmWriter
- 1965Shakespeare-WallahFilmScreenplay, Writer
- 1963The HouseholderFilmOriginal Film Writer, Writer