Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Novelist, Author
1927 – 2013
Who was Ruth Prawer Jhabvala?
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE 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 the late producer Ismail Merchant. Jhabvala 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.
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- Born
- May 7, 1927
Cologne - Also known as
- R. Prawer Jhabvala
- Ruth and Cyrus Jhabvala
- Ruth Prawer
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Cyrus Jhabvala
(1951 - 2013/04/03)
- Cyrus Jhabvala
- Children
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Germans
- Nationality
- Germany
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Arts, Queen Mary, University of London
English Literature
( - 1951) - University of London
- Master of Arts, Queen Mary, University of London
- Lived in
- New York City
(1975 - 2013/04/03)
- New York City
- Died
- Apr 3, 2013
New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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