Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Writing May 7, 1927

Cologne, Weimar Republic [now Germany]

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 s…

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The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

7.4 1993 Movie
A Room with a View

A Room with a View

7.0 1986 Movie
Howards End

Howards End

7.0 1992 Movie
American Playhouse

American Playhouse

6.6 1982 TV Show
ABC Afterschool Special

ABC Afterschool Special

6.5 1972 TV Show
Le Divorce

Le Divorce

5.0 2003 Movie
Surviving Picasso

Surviving Picasso

5.8 1996 Movie
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

6.1 1990 Movie
The Golden Bowl

The Golden Bowl

6.0 2000 Movie
The City of Your Final Destination

The City of Your Final Destination

5.7 2009 Movie
The Bostonians

The Bostonians

5.5 1984 Movie
Jefferson in Paris

Jefferson in Paris

5.1 1995 Movie

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2009
    The City of Your Final Destination

    Movie Screenplay

  2. 2005
    A Tribute To Ismail Merchant

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  3. 2003
    Le Divorce

    Movie Writer

  4. 2001
    Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'

    Movie Self

  5. 2000
    The Golden Bowl

    Movie Writer

  6. 1998
    A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

    Movie Screenplay

  7. 1996
    Surviving Picasso

    Movie Screenplay

  8. 1995
    Jefferson in Paris

    Movie Writer

  9. 1993
    The Remains of the Day

    Movie Screenplay

  10. 1992
    Howards End

    Movie Screenplay

  11. 1990
    Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

    Movie Screenplay

  12. 1988
    Madame Sousatzka

    Movie Screenplay

  13. 1986
    A Room with a View

    Movie Screenplay

  14. 1984
    The Bostonians

    Movie Screenplay

  15. 1984
    The Wandering Company

    Movie Self

  16. 1983
    Heat and Dust

    Movie Writer

More credits
  1. 1983
    The Courtesans of Bombay

    Movie Writer

  2. 1982
    American Playhouse

    TV show Writer

  3. 1981
    Quartet

    Movie Writer

  4. 1980
    Jane Austen in Manhattan

    Movie Writer

  5. 1979
    The Europeans

    Movie Screenplay

  6. 1978
    Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures

    Movie Story

  7. 1977
    Roseland

    Movie Writer

  8. 1975
    Autobiography of a Princess

    Movie Writer

  9. 1973
    William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare

    Movie Teleplay

  10. 1972
    ABC Afterschool Special

    TV show Teleplay

  11. 1970
    Bombay Talkie

    Movie Screenplay

  12. 1969
    The Guru

    Movie Writer

  13. 1965
    Shakespeare-Wallah

    Movie Screenplay

  14. 1963
    The Householder

    Movie Original Film Writer