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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala CBE (née Prawer; 7 May 1927 – 3 April 2013) was a British and American novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for her collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions , made up of film director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant .
Apr 19, 2024 · Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, novelist and screenwriter, well known for her witty and insightful portrayals of contemporary Indian lives and, especially, for her 46 years as a pivotal member of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory’s filmmaking team. Her scripts for A Room with a View (1985) and Howards End (1992) won Oscars.
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has 51 books on Goodreads with 28790 ratings. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s most popular book is Heat and Dust.
Heat and Dust (1975) is a novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala that won the Booker Prize in 1975. The book was also ranked by The Telegraph in 2014 as one of the 10 all-time greatest Asian novels.
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- 1975
Novels: Esmond in India, The Nature Of Passion, Get Ready for Battle, Travelers, Heat and Dust, In Search of Love and Beauty. Shards of Memory
Apr 3, 2013 · Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE was a Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She was perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant.
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Jan 3, 2019 · The author of a dozen novels and twice as many screenplays — she’s the only person to have won both the Booker Prize (for her eighth and best-known novel, “Heat and Dust”) and an Academy...
