Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer

 orig. Ruth Prawer

(born May 7, 1927, Cologne, Ger.) German-born novelist and screenwriter. She was born into a Jewish family, and in 1939 they immigrated to England. She married an Indian architect and moved to India, where she lived until 1975. Thereafter she lived in New York. Many of her novels, including Heat and Dust (1975, Booker Prize), are set in India. She has written original screenplays for such films as Shakespeare-Wallah (1965) and film adaptations of such novels as The Bostonians (1984), A Room with a View (1985), Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993), and The Golden Bowl (2000).