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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.
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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1927-05-07
- event Death Date 2013-04-03
- school Known for: Writing
- star Popularity: 3.6
- info Birth Place Cologne, Germany
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Merchant Ivory
2024-08-30
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A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
2005-10-30
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The Wandering Company
1984-01-01
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Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
2001-10-22
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The Remains of the Day
1993-11-05
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A Room with a View
1986-03-07
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Howards End
1992-03-13
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The City of Your Final Destination
2009-03-21
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Bombay Talkie
1970-11-18
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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
1998-09-18
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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1990-11-23
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Roseland
1977-10-02
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Surviving Picasso
1996-09-04
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The Golden Bowl
2000-05-14
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Jefferson in Paris
1995-03-31
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The Householder
1963-10-20
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The Courtesans of Bombay
1983-01-01
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Autobiography of a Princess
1975-10-05
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Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
1978-09-01
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Heat and Dust
1983-01-01
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Shakespeare-Wallah
1965-12-01
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Le Divorce
2003-08-08
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Madame Sousatzka
1988-10-14
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The Bostonians
1984-05-01
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The Europeans
1979-05-01
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The Guru
1969-02-10
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Jane Austen in Manhattan
1980-07-01
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Quartet
1981-10-25
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The Householder
1963-10-20
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William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
1973-01-03
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Heat and Dust
1983-01-01
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ABC Afterschool Special
1972-10-04