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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927-2013)

Birthplace:
Cologne, Germany

Born:
May 7, 1927

Died:
April 3, 2013

Biography from TheMovieDB

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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Film Production

Novel:
1983  Heat and Dust

Original Film Writer:
1963  The Householder
1983  Heat and Dust

Screenplay:
1963  The Householder
1970  Bombay Talkie
1979  The Europeans
1983  Heat and Dust
1984  The Bostonians
1986  A Room with a View
1988  Madame Sousatzka
1990  Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1992  Howards End
1993  The Remains of the Day
1996  Surviving Picasso
1998  A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
2009  The City of Your Final Destination

Story:
1963  The Householder
1965  Shakespeare-Wallah
1970  Bombay Talkie
1978  Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
1979  The Europeans
1983  Heat and Dust
1984  The Bostonians
1986  A Room with a View
1988  Madame Sousatzka
1990  Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1992  Howards End
1993  The Remains of the Day
1996  Surviving Picasso
1998  A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
2009  The City of Your Final Destination

Teleplay:
1963  The Householder
1965  Shakespeare-Wallah
1970  Bombay Talkie
1973  William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
1978  Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
1979  The Europeans
1983  Heat and Dust
1984  The Bostonians
1986  A Room with a View
1988  Madame Sousatzka
1990  Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1992  Howards End
1993  The Remains of the Day
1996  Surviving Picasso
1998  A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
2009  The City of Your Final Destination

Writer:
1963  The Householder
1965  Shakespeare-Wallah
1969  The Guru
1970  Bombay Talkie
1973  William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
1975  Autobiography of a Princess
1977  Roseland
1978  Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
1979  The Europeans
1980  Jane Austen in Manhattan
1981  Quartet
1983  Heat and Dust
1983  The Courtesans of Bombay
1984  The Bostonians
1986  A Room with a View
1988  Madame Sousatzka
1990  Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1992  Howards End
1993  The Remains of the Day
1995  Jefferson in Paris
1996  Surviving Picasso
1998  A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
2000  The Golden Bowl
2003  Le Divorce
2009  The City of Your Final Destination

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TV Production

Teleplay:
1972  ABC Afterschool Special

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