Known For
Writing
Born
May 07, 1927
Died
Apr 03, 2013
Place of Birth
Cologne, Weimar Republic [now Germany]
Credits
30 titles
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
Filmography
The City of Your Final Destination
Screenplay
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Self (archive footage)
Le Divorce
Writer
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
Self
The Golden Bowl
Writer
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Screenplay
Surviving Picasso
Screenplay
Jefferson in Paris
Writer
The Remains of the Day
Screenplay
Howards End
Screenplay
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Screenplay
Madame Sousatzka
Screenplay
A Room with a View
Screenplay
The Bostonians
Screenplay
The Wandering Company
Self
Heat and Dust
Writer
The Courtesans of Bombay
Writer
American Playhouse
Writer
Quartet
Writer
Jane Austen in Manhattan
Writer
The Europeans
Screenplay
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
Story
Roseland
Writer
Autobiography of a Princess
Writer
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
Teleplay
ABC Afterschool Special
Teleplay
Bombay Talkie
Screenplay
The Guru
Writer
Shakespeare-Wallah
Screenplay
The Householder
Original Film Writer