Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born in Germany of Polish parents and came to England in 1939 at the age of twelve. She graduated from Queen Mary College, London University, and married an Indian architect. They lived in Delhi from 1951 to 1975, and raised three daughters. Since then they have divided their time between Delhi, New York and London. Her published works include novels, television and film scripts, many of which are set in India. Her first collaboration with director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant was 'Shakespearewallah'. She has also adapted such novels as Henry James' The Europeans for Merchant-Ivory. In 1975, she won the Booker Prize for Heat and Dust, and has two Academy Awards for her screenplays -- A Room with a View, and Howard's End. She is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker.

Bibliography

Silence, exile and cunning: the fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Orient Longman Ltd., New Delhi, and Sangam Press Ltd., London 1983

South Asian Women authors
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