Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- May 7, 1927
- Died
- April 3, 2013 (aged 85)
- Birthplace
- Cologne, Weimar Republic [now Germany]
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.
Known For
Filmography
The City of Your Final Destination
Movie · Screenplay
Le Divorce
Movie · Writer
The Golden Bowl
Movie · Writer
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Movie · Screenplay
Surviving Picasso
Movie · Screenplay
Jefferson in Paris
Movie · Writer
The Remains of the Day
Movie · Screenplay
Howards End
Movie · Screenplay
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Movie · Screenplay
Madame Sousatzka
Movie · Screenplay
A Room with a View
Movie · Screenplay
The Bostonians
Movie · Screenplay
The Courtesans of Bombay
Movie · Writer
Heat and Dust
Movie · Writer, Novel
American Playhouse
TV · Writer · 1 ep
Quartet
Movie · Writer
Jane Austen in Manhattan
Movie · Writer
The Europeans
Movie · Screenplay
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
Movie · Story
Roseland
Movie · Writer
Autobiography of a Princess
Movie · Writer
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
Movie · Teleplay
ABC Afterschool Special
TV · Teleplay · 1 ep
Bombay Talkie
Movie · Screenplay
The Guru
Movie · Writer
Shakespeare-Wallah
Movie · Screenplay, Writer
The Householder
Movie · Original Film Writer