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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was a British and American novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for her collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of film director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant.
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culture · British-American writer (1927–2013) · screenwriter · novelist · writer · also Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Jhabvala
Born 7 May 1927 · Died 3 April 2013 · Q235759
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2026· 5 entries
“My husband is Indian and so are my children. I am not, and less so every year.”
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“How do I know what two men do when they”
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“I know what Jim likes, and he knows what I can do. Ismail is the one we depend on to barge in everywhere; he”
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“fascinated both with the guru, or false guru, and the naive person who”
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2025· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: Fiction: ‘Disinheritance’ by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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2018· 1 entry
The Village Voice: The Poignant Rootlessness of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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2016· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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2013· 5 entries
Christian Science Monitor: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 'A Room With a View' screenwriter, dies
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The Diplomat: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Novelist and Screenwriter Dies at 85
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Variety: ‘Room With a View’ Screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Dies at 85
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The New Yorker: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Stories
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Died 2013-04-03.
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded O. Henry Award (2005).
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Published My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past with illustrations by her husband and the book was described as "her most autobiographical fiction to date"
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1998).
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1995· 1 entry
“, which multiplies selves in place of those who died. In Newman”
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for Howards End (1993).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for A Room with a View (1987).
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1986· 1 entry
Became a naturalized citizen of the United States
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded MacArthur Fellows Program (1984).
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1983· 2 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (1983).
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Won Jhabvala a BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay the following year
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1979· 1 entry
To the duo after meeting him while he was the director of Mannes College of Music, New York
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1976).
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1975· 4 entries
Awarded Booker Prize for Heat and Dust (1975).
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And lived there until her death in 2013, becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1986
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Jhabvala moved to New York and divided her time between India and the United States
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Won the Booker Prize for her novel Heat and Dust, later adapted into a film
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1963· 2 entries
And starring Shashi Kapoor and Leela Naidu, met with critical praise and marked the beginning of a partnership that resulted in over 20 films
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Jhabvala was approached by James Ivory and Ismail Merchant to write a screenplay for their debut The Householder, based on her 1960 novel
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1951· 3 entries
After marrying Indian Parsi architect Cyrus Jhabvala
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And moving from England to New Delhi, she began to write novels and tales on Indian subjects
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Prawer married Cyrus Shavaksha Hormusji Jhabvala, an Indian Parsi architect and, later, head of the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
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1927· 1 entry
Born 1927-05-07.
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