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  1. 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 .

  2. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (born May 7, 1927, Cologne, Germany—died April 3, 2013, New York, New York, U.S.) was a 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.

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  3. Apr 3, 2013 · April 3, 2013. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the German-born screenwriter and novelist who, as the writing member of the Merchant Ivory filmmaking team, won two Academy Awards for adaptations of genteel ...

  4. Dec 31, 2018 · Ruth Prawer was born in Cologne in 1927 into a bourgeois, assimilated Jewish family. Her maternal grandfather was a cantor at a prominent Cologne synagogue; her father, Marcus, a lawyer, had ...

  5. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born on May 7, 1927, in Cologne, to a Polish-born father and German-born mother. Her brother, Siegbert (b. 1925), studied at Cambridge University and later became a professor of German literature at Oxford University. The family emigrated to Britain in 1939 and attained British citizenship in 1948.

  6. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 1927-2013, was an award-winning novelist and screenwriter who spent her life living in 3 continents. She was married to the renowned architect and artist Cyrus Jhabvala cshjhabvala.com and had 3 daughters. She is survived by her 3 daughters and her close friend and screenplay collaborator, James Ivory merchantivory.com.

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  8. ‘Neither Love Nor Loathing for India: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Testament’ (excerpts from ‘Disinheritance’ essay) Overseas Hindustan Times. pp.8-9, 07 August (1980) ‘Books which have influenced me’ (essay) Possibly published in Illustrated Weekly of India , September 05 (Undated year)

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