Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Writing

Born 1927-05-07 Died 2013-04-03 Cologne, Weimar Republic [now Germany] 30 credits Academy Awards 2 Writers Guild of America 1

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Won 2 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 2 won

1993 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Won Howards End
1987 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Won A Room with a View

Writers Guild of America 1 won

1987 Best Adapted Screenplay Won A Room with a View

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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.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Awards

Academy Awards 2 won

Writers Guild of America 1 won

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