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- Birth nameRuth Prawer
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born on May 7, 1927 in Cologne, Germany. She was a writer, known for Howards End (1992), A Room with a View (1986) and The Remains of the Day (1993). She was married to Cyrus Jhabvala. She died on April 3, 2013 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseCyrus Jhabvala(1951 - April 3, 2013) (her death, 3 children)
- She was born into a Jewish family which fled Nazi Germany in 1939 to begin a new life in Britain. She met her future husband in London, and they moved to his native India in the 1950s.
- The screenwriting partner of the Merchant Ivory production team.
- She was approached by Merchant and Ivory for permission to make a film of her 1960 novel "The Householder". She agreed to write the screenplay for The Householder (1963), and it was the beginning of a successful partnership.
- Became a U.S Citizen in 1986.
- Both of her Academy Award wins were for adapted screenplays of E.M. Forster novels.
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