Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Writer

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.

Born: May 7, 1927 in Cologne, Germany

Died: April 3, 2013 (Age 85)

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Movies & TV Credits

Title	Rating	Job	Role(s)	Year
Merchant Ivory Movie		Actress	Self (archive footage)	2023
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day' Movie	7.2	Actress	Self	1993
The Wandering Company Movie	7.5	Actress	Self	1985
A Room with a View Movie Available on 28 streaming services.	7.4	Writing	Screenplay	1985
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries Movie	6.6	Writing	Screenplay	1998
Autobiography of a Princess Movie	5.7	Writing	Writer	1975
Bombay Talkie Movie	5.4	Writing	Screenplay	1970
Heat and Dust Movie Available on 22 streaming services.	6.4	Writing	Novel, Writer	1983
Howards End Movie Available on 31 streaming services.	7.5	Writing	Screenplay	1992
Jane Austen in Manhattan Movie	4.4	Writing	Writer	1980
Jefferson in Paris Movie Available on 26 streaming services.	5.5	Writing	Writer	1995
Madame Sousatzka Movie Available on 14 streaming services.	6.4	Writing	Screenplay	1988
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge Movie Available on 7 streaming services.	6.4	Writing	Screenplay	1990
Quartet Movie Available on 29 streaming services.	6	Writing	Writer	1981
Roseland Movie	5.8	Writing	Writer	1977
Shakespeare-Wallah Movie Available on 26 streaming services.	6.6	Writing	Story	1965
Surviving Picasso Movie Available on 26 streaming services.	6.2	Writing	Screenplay	1996
The Bostonians Movie Available on 28 streaming services.	6	Writing	Screenplay	1984
The City of Your Final Destination Movie Available on 25 streaming services.	6.1	Writing	Screenplay	2009
Le Divorce Movie Available on 25 streaming services.	5	Writing	Writer	2003
The Europeans Movie	5.9	Writing	Screenplay	1979
The Golden Bowl Movie	6	Writing	Writer	2000
The Guru Movie	5.2	Writing	Writer	1969
The Householder Movie	6.6	Writing	Writer, Original Film Writer	1963
The Remains of the Day Movie Available on 31 streaming services.	7.9	Writing	Screenplay	1993
William: The Life, Works, And Times Of William Shakespeare Movie	6.3	Writing	Teleplay	1973
ABC Afterschool Special TV Show	6.9	Writing	Teleplay 1 Episode	1972-1997
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures Movie	5.8	Writing	Story	1978
The Courtesans of Bombay Movie	6.2	Writing	Writer	1983
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