Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Schrijver, Acteur

7 mei 1927 — 3 april 2013 (85 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The City of Your Final Destination
    The City of Your Final Destination2009

Known For

  • The Remains of the Day
    The Remains of the Day1993
  • A Room with a View
    A Room with a View1986
  • Howards End
    Howards End1992
  • Surviving Picasso
    Surviving Picasso1996
  • Le divorce
    Le divorce2003
  • Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
    Mr. & Mrs. Bridge1990
  • Jefferson in Paris
    Jefferson in Paris1995
  • Heat and Dust
    Heat and Dust1983
  • The Bostonians
    The Bostonians1984
  • The Golden Bowl
    The Golden Bowl2000
  • Quartet
    Quartet1981
  • The City of Your Final Destination
    The City of Your Final Destination2009
  • Shakespeare-Wallah
    Shakespeare-Wallah1965
  • A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
    A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries1998
  • Roseland
    Roseland1977
  • The Europeans
    The Europeans1979
  • Madame Sousatzka
    Madame Sousatzka1988
  • Bombay Talkie
    Bombay Talkie1970
  • Autobiography of a Princess
    Autobiography of a Princess1975
  • Jane Austen in Manhattan
    Jane Austen in Manhattan1980

Cinematografie

2009
The City of Your Final Destination · as ScreenplayOp Plex
2003
2000
1998
1996
Surviving Picasso · as Screenplay
1995
1993
The Remains of the Day · as Screenplay
1992
Howards End · as Screenplay
1990
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge · as Screenplay
1988
Madame Sousatzka · as Screenplay
1986
A Room with a View · as Screenplay
1984
The Bostonians · as Screenplay
1983
1983
1981
1980
1980
1979
The Europeans · as Screenplay
1977
1975
1970
Bombay Talkie · as Screenplay
1969
1965
Shakespeare-Wallah · as Screenplay
1963
The Householder · as Original Film Writer

2023
Merchant Ivory · as Self
2019
2014
The Oscars · as Self - Writer (in Memoriam)
1985
1978
1968
60 Minutes · as Self - Screenwriter (segment: Movie Mavericks)

1994
In Ismail's Custody · as Writer