Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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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…
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Known For
American Playhouse
1982 · TV
ABC Afterschool Special
1972 · TV
The Remains of the Day
1993 · Movie
A Room with a View
1986 · Movie
Howards End
1992 · Movie
Le Divorce
2003 · Movie
Jefferson in Paris
1995 · Movie
Surviving Picasso
1996 · Movie
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1990 · Movie
The City of Your Final Destination
2009 · Movie
The Bostonians
1984 · Movie
The Golden Bowl
2000 · Movie