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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 .
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, 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,...
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.
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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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala sits between producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory after receiving an award for outstanding achievement in screenwriting, 1989. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born in Cologne, Germany. She wrote 12 novels, including the Booker Prize-winning Heat and Dust.
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.
