About

Known credits:
31
Birthday:
1927-05-07
Place of birth:
Cologne, Germany
Website:
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Overview

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

Acting
2024 Merchant Ivory Actor Self (archive footage) 58
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2005 A Tribute To Ismail Merchant Actor Self (archive footage) 59
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2001 Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day' Actor Self 58
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1984 The Wandering Company Actor Self N/A
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Writing
2009 The City of Your Final Destination Writing Screenplay 58
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2003 Le Divorce Writing Writer 56
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2000 The Golden Bowl Writing Writer 59
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1998 A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries Writing Screenplay 59
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1996 Surviving Picasso Writing Screenplay 58
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1995 Jefferson in Paris Writing Writer 58
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1993 The Remains of the Day Writing Screenplay 69
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1992 Howards End Writing Screenplay 64
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1990 Mr. & Mrs. Bridge Writing Screenplay 58
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1988 Madame Sousatzka Writing Screenplay 59
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1986 A Room with a View Writing Screenplay 65
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1984 The Bostonians Writing Screenplay 58
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1983 The Courtesans of Bombay Writing Writer 58
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1983 Heat and Dust Writing Writer 59
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1983 Heat and Dust Writing Novel 59
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1981 Quartet Writing Writer 59
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1980 Jane Austen in Manhattan Writing Writer 59
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1979 The Europeans Writing Screenplay 58
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1978 Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures Writing Story 58
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1977 Roseland Writing Writer 58
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1975 Autobiography of a Princess Writing Writer 58
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1973 William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare Writing Teleplay N/A
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1970 Bombay Talkie Writing Screenplay 58
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1969 The Guru Writing Writer 58
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1965 Shakespeare-Wallah Writing Story 59
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1963 The Householder Writing Writer 59
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1963 The Householder Writing Original Film Writer 59
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