Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE is a 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 the late producer Ismail Merchant. Their films won six Academy Awards.She fled Cologne with her family in 1939 and lived through the London Blitz. After university she moved to Delhi, her home for 24 years (until 1975). She began to write fiction, exploring east-west encounters, and won the Booker prize. Now based in New York, she is best known for her Oscar-winning screenplays.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE is a 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 the late producer Ismail Merchant. Their films won six Academy Awards.She fled Cologne with her family in 1939 and lived through the London Blitz. After university she moved to Delhi, her home for 24 years (until 1975). She began to write fiction, exploring east-west encounters, and won the Booker prize. Now based in New York, she is best known for her Oscar-winning screenplays.
