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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 .
- 1955–2014
- 3, including Renana
0-7195-3401-1. OCLC. 1930059. Dewey Decimal. 823. LC Class. PR9499.3.J5 H4. 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.
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Apr 19, 2024 · 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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Apr 3, 2013 · Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, novelist and screenwriter, born 7 May 1927; died 3 April 2013 This article was amended on 4 April 2013. Jhabvala won the Neil, rather than Nell, Gunn international fellowship.
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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.
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 ...
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.
