Ruth Prawer Jhabvala skilfully weaves two parallel stories set in India, one in the present and the other in the days of British rule
The Booker Prize 1975
The Booker Prize 1975
- Winner
- Shortlist
Another year of controversy when after working their way through the 83 novels submitted the unimpressed judges decided that only two of them were worthy of shortlisting.
After Angus Wilson and his panel had dismissed 81 by now severely disgruntled novelists the two left standing were Ruth Prawer Jhabvala with Heat and Dust and Thomas Keneally with Gossip From the Forest: Jhabvala won.
By then the German-born Anglo-American Jhabvala had already started writing screenplays for the celebrated filmmaking duo of James Merchant and Ismail Ivory and she holds the distinction of being the only Booker Prize winner also to have won an Oscar.
Heat and Dust
Winner of The Booker Prize 1975
- Published by
- John Murray
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala skilfully weaves two parallel stories set in India, one in the present and the other in the days of British rule
The shortlist
Thomas Keneally’s convincing fictional account of the peace negotiations that took place in the Forest of Compiègne at the end of World War One
