Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born in 1927 in Cologne, to a Jewish father who had come from Poland and a Jewish mother from the city, and reached Britain in 1939; some forty of her relatives perished in the Shoah, and her father took his own life shortly after the war. Married to an Indian architect, she lived twenty-four years in Delhi, then settled in New York. For more than forty years she wrote the screenplays for a producer-and-director partnership, and received two Oscars for adaptations. She died in 2013.

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• NovelHeat and DustRuth Prawer Jhabvala · 1975Literature