Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1927-05-07 (86 years old)
Deathday
2013-04-03
Place of Birth
Cologne, Germany
Also known As
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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...
Acting
2024
as Self (archive footage)
2005
as Self (archive footage)
1984
as Self
Production
1993
as Screenplay
1986
as Screenplay
1992
as Screenplay
2009
as Screenplay
1970
as Screenplay
1998
as Screenplay
1990
as Screenplay
1977
as Writer
1996
as Screenplay
2000
as Writer
1995
as Writer
1963
as Original Film Writer
1983
as Writer
1975
as Writer
1978
1983
as Writer
2003
as Writer
1988
as Screenplay
1984
as Screenplay
1979
as Screenplay
1969
as Writer
1980
as Writer
1981
as Writer
1963
as Writer
1973
1983
as Novel
1965
as Screenplay
1965
as Writer
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