Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Overview
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.
Le Divorce
Average rating: 4.9
The Remains of the Day
Average rating: 7.4
A Room with a View
Average rating: 7
Howards End
Average rating: 7
Heat and Dust
Average rating: 6.1
Heat and Dust
Average rating: 6.1
Surviving Picasso
Average rating: 5.8
The Golden Bowl
Average rating: 6
Jefferson in Paris
Average rating: 5.1
The City of Your Final Destination
Average rating: 5.7
Quartet
Average rating: 5.8
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Average rating: 5.9
Shakespeare-Wallah
Average rating: 6.5
The Bostonians
Average rating: 5.5
The Guru
Average rating: 5
ABC Afterschool Special
Average rating: 6.3Images See all
Acting history
| Year | Media type | Title | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Movie | Merchant Ivory | Self (archive footage) |
| 2005 | Movie | A Tribute To Ismail Merchant | Self (archive footage) |
| 2001 | Movie | Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day' | Self |
| 1984 | Movie | The Wandering Company | Self |
Producing history
| Year | Media type | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Movie | The City of Your Final Destination | Writing |
| 2003 | Movie | Le Divorce | Writing |
| 2000 | Movie | The Golden Bowl | Writing |
| 1998 | Movie | A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries | Writing |
| 1996 | Movie | Surviving Picasso | Writing |
| 1995 | Movie | Jefferson in Paris | Writing |
| 1993 | Movie | The Remains of the Day | Writing |
| 1992 | Movie | Howards End | Writing |
| 1990 | Movie | Mr. & Mrs. Bridge | Writing |
| 1988 | Movie | Madame Sousatzka | Writing |
| 1986 | Movie | A Room with a View | Writing |
| 1984 | Movie | The Bostonians | Writing |
| 1983 | Movie | Heat and Dust | Writing |
| 1983 | Movie | The Courtesans of Bombay | Writing |
| 1983 | Movie | Heat and Dust | Writing |
| 1981 | Movie | Quartet | Writing |
| 1980 | Movie | Jane Austen in Manhattan | Writing |
| 1979 | Movie | The Europeans | Writing |
| 1978 | Movie | Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures | Writing |
| 1977 | Movie | Roseland | Writing |
| 1975 | Movie | Autobiography of a Princess | Writing |
| 1973 | Movie | William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare | Writing |
| 1972 | Tv Show | ABC Afterschool Special | Writing |
| 1970 | Movie | Bombay Talkie | Writing |
| 1969 | Movie | The Guru | Writing |
| 1965 | Movie | Shakespeare-Wallah | Writing |
| 1963 | Movie | The Householder | Writing |
| 1963 | Movie | The Householder | Writing |