Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Writing

Born: 1927-05-07
Died: 2013-04-03
From: Cologne, Weimar Republic [now Germany]
Gender: Female
Popularity: 0.3

Biography

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.

Awards & Nominations10 won · 3 nominated

🏆 Won

O. Henry Award

2005
🏆 Won

Commander of the Order of the British Empire

1998
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

The Remains of the Day

1994
🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

Howards End

1993
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

Howards End

1993
🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

A Room with a View

1987
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

A Room with a View

1987
🏆 Won

MacArthur Fellows Program

1984
🏆 Won

BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

1983
🏆 Won

Guggenheim Fellowship

1976
🏆 Won

Booker Prize

Heat and Dust

1975
🏆 Won

Writers Guild of America Award

🏆 Won

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature