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   Ruth Prawer Jhabvala CBE ( née Prawer; 7 May 1927 [1] – 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]

   • Period: 1955–2014
   • Children: 3, including Renana

   • Alma mater: Queen Mary University of London
   • Relatives: Siegbert Salomon Prawer (brother)

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Ruth-Prawer-JhabvalaRuth Prawer Jhabvala | Biography, Books, Novels ... - Britannica

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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 · The writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who has died aged 85, achieved her greatest fame late in life, and for work she had once dismissed as a hobby – listing "writing film scripts" as a recreation...

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6. www.nytimes.com › 2013/04/04 › moviesRuth Prawer Jhabvala, Writer, Dies at 85 - The New York Times

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   Apr 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,...

7. jwa.org › encyclopedia › articleRuth Prawer Jhabvala | Jewish Women's Archive

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   Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was a novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Known for her nuanced depiction of exile and identity, she is the only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar.

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   Who was Ruth Prawer Jhabvala?

   • Photograph: Eamonn McCabe Novelist and screenwriter known for her work on Merchant Ivory films, including A Room with a View and Heat and Dust The writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who has died aged 85, achieved her greatest fame late in life, and for work she had once dismissed as a hobby – listing "writing film scripts" as a recreation in Who's Who.

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   • 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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   Who is Ruth Prawer?

   • One of Jhabvala’s short-story collections, published in 1998, is called “East Into Upper East.” The title is a play on her own life story: starting in the seventies, she split her time between New York and New Delhi. But, in fact, that understates her geographical range. Ruth Prawer was born into a Jewish family in Cologne, Germany, in 1927.

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   What awards did Ruth Prawer Jhabvala win?

   • Her awards include the Booker Prize for Heat and Dust (1975), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1976), a Neil Gunn International Fellowship (1978), and a MacArthur Fellowship (1984). To many of her readers, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is equated with the silks and spices of Heat and Dust (1975).

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9. www.newyorker.com › ruth-prawer-jhabvalas-storiesRuth Prawer Jhabvala’s Stories | The New Yorker

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   Apr 3, 2013 · This morning, the writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala passed away, at the age of eighty-five. Beginning in 1957, Jhabvala published thirty-one stories in The New Yorker; her most recent story, “ The...

10. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2019/01/07Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Art of Ambivalence

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    Dec 31, 2018 · The writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala cast her satiric gaze widely, scrutinizing everyone from Indian élites to New York émigrés, Maya Jasanoff writes.