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   Ruth Prawer Jhabvala CBE (née Prawer; 7 May 1927 – 3 April 2013) 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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   Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, novelist and screenwriter, well known for her witty and insightful portrayals of contemporary Indian lives and, especially, for her 46 years as a pivotal member of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory’s filmmaking team.

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4. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2019/01/07Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Art of Ambivalence

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   Dec 31, 2018 · The writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala cast her satiric gaze widely, scrutinizing everyone from Indian élites to New York émigrés, Maya Jasanoff writes.

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6. ruthprawerjhabvala.com › literary-worksLiterary Works - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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   Short story collections. “And after all that writing, I now write only short stories, which I love for their potential of compressing and containing whatsoever I have learnt about writing, and about everything else.”.

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7. jwa.org › encyclopedia › articleRuth Prawer Jhabvala | Jewish Women's Archive

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   Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was a novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Known for her nuanced depiction of exile and identity, she is the only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar.

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   Learn about the life and achievements of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a novelist and screenwriter who lived in three continents and won many awards. Explore her early years in Germany, her escape from the Nazis, her marriage to Cyrus Jhabvala, her move to India and New York, and her themes of disinheritance and identity.

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   Who is Ruth Prawer Jhabvala?

   • "Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: Author and screenwriter who won two Oscars and the Booker Prize". The Independent. Retrieved 6 April 2013. ^ Merchant, Ismail (9 April 2012). Merchant-Ivory: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-61703-237-0. Retrieved 4 April 2012. ^ a b c d Jaggi, Maya (19 March 2005). "Brave new worlds". The Guardian.

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   When did Ruth Prawer marry Cyrus Jhabvala?

   • The family emigrated to Britain in 1939 and attained British citizenship in 1948. After completing schooling at Hendon County School in London in 1945, Ruth Prawer attended Queen Mary College, London, where she received first a BA degree and then an MA in English literature (1951). She married Cyrus Jhabvala in 1951. The couple had three daughters.

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   What awards did Ruth Prawer Jhabvala win?

   • Her awards include the Booker Prize for Heat and Dust (1975), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1976), a Neil Gunn International Fellowship (1978), and a MacArthur Fellowship (1984). To many of her readers, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is equated with the silks and spices of Heat and Dust (1975).

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   When did Ruth Prawer move to India?

   • Ruth Prawer moved to India in 1951 after marrying Indian Parsi architect Cyrus Jhabvala. Her first novel, To Whom She Will, was published in 1955. It was followed by Esmond in India (1957), The Householder (1960) and Get Ready for Battle (1963). The Householder, with a screenplay by Jhabvala, was filmed in 1963 by Merchant and Ivory.

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   Who is Ruth Prawer?

   • She is the only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar. Ruth Prawer was born in Cologne, Germany to Jewish parents Marcus and Eleanora (Cohn) Prawer.

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   Where did Jhabvala live?

   • From 1951 to 1975, Jhabvala lived in India; in 1975, she moved to New York City, where she lived until her death in 2013. She is known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, in which Jhabvala wrote scripts and screenplays for director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant.

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10. www.economist.com › 04 › 13Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - The Economist

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    Apr 13, 2013 · WHEN she was put on the spot, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala liked to say she came from nowhere. It was hard to prove her wrong. Her accent gave little away: central Europe, north London, Delhi and New...