Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Female

Birthday 1927-05-07

Deathday 2013-04-03 (85 years old)

Place of Birth Cologne, Germany

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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

Writer

2003
Le Divorce

as Writer

2000
The Golden Bowl

as Writer

1996
Surviving Picasso

as Screenplay

1995
1993
1992
Howards End

as Screenplay

1990
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

as Screenplay

1988
Madame Sousatzka

as Screenplay

1985
A Room with a View

as Screenplay

1984
The Bostonians

as Screenplay

1983
Heat and Dust

as Writer

1983
Heat and Dust

as Novel

1981
Quartet

as Writer

1979
The Europeans

as Screenplay

1977
Roseland

as Writer

1972
1970
Bombay Talkie

as Screenplay

1969
The Guru

as Writer

1965
1963
The Householder

as Original Film Writer

1963
The Householder

as Writer

Actor

2024
Merchant Ivory

as Self (archive footage)

2005
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant

as Self (archive footage)