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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala sits between producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory after receiving an award for outstanding achievement in screenwriting, 1989
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born in Cologne, Germany. She wrote 12 novels, including the Booker Prize-winning Heat and Dust.
As well as her novels, she produced five volumes of short stories. She also wrote more than a dozen screenplays, including film adapations of the novels Howard’s End and A Room with a View, for both of which she received an Academy Award. She also adapted Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day for the screen.
Winner The Booker Prize 1975
- By
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- 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.
