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   Ruth Prawer Jhabvala CBE (née Prawer; 7 May 1927 [1] – 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. [2]

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   Mar 8, 2019 · On International Women's Day, we celebrate the only person ever to have won both an Oscar and the Booker Prize: Merchant Ivory's secret weapon – novelist and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

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   Jan 15, 2024 · Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927-2013) won an Oscar for her screenplay of A Room with a View (1985), based on E. M. Forster’s novel of 1908.

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   Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 1927-2013, was an award-winning novelist and screenwriter who spent her life living in 3 continents. She was married to the renowned architect and artist Cyrus Jhabvala cshjhabvala.com and had 3 daughters.

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   Apr 13, 2013 · She knew nothing about film. But when Merchant and Mr Ivory came to India to recruit her in 1962, on the strength of her novel “The Householder”, it sounded fun.

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   Ruth receiving the Booker Award. Above all, Ruth was a master story-teller. In her simple and beautiful prose, she told gripping stories of people mired in their circumstance, longing for lives other than their own.

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   Who was Ruth Prawer Jhabvala?

   • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 1927-2013, was an award-winning novelist and screenwriter who spent her life living in 3 continents. She was married to the renowned architect and artist Cyrus Jhabvala cshjhabvala.com and had 3 daughters. She is survived by her 3 daughters and her close friend and screenplay collaborator, James Ivory merchantivory.com

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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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   Did Jhabvala pretend to be a housemaid?

   • In 1963, Jhabvala was approached by James Ivory and Ismail Merchant to write a screenplay for their debut The Householder, based on her 1960 novel. During their first encounter, Merchant later said Jhabvala, seeking to avoid them, pretended to be the housemaid when they visited.

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   Why was Jhabvala wrong in Merchant Ivory?

   • And one of the reasons he was wrong is that because beneath the starched collars and herringbone corsets of these elegant period dramas burns a singular, acerbic and razor-sharp voice provided by the writing of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – the woman behind Merchant Ivory.

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   How many scripts did Jhabvala write?

   • As one part of the ‘three-headed god’ that made up Merchant Ivory, alongside producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, Jhabvala wrote 23 scripts out of the 44 films produced, alongside her 12 novels and eight collections of short stories.

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   Why did Jhabvala get a booker?

   • The Raj was the past for Jhabvala. She was intrigued not by what was, but what India was becoming. Of course, there is an irony that Heat and Dust, partly set during the rule of the British Empire, would win her a Booker. When Indian critics realised she wasn’t Indian there was outrage.

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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.