Biographies: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Writer

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English screenwriter, born in Cologne, Germany. In the 1950s, she moved to New Delhi, where she began writing novels and short stories. She turned to screenwriting and wrote a screenplay for a novel she had written, entitled The Homeowner. Among her films is A Room with a View (1986), for which she won an Oscar for Best Screenplay in 1987. Six years later, she received her second award for Howards End (1992). Some of her films were based on classic novels by other writers, as was the case when she adapted Japanese writer Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, The Remains of the Day (1993). She adapted Henry James' novel into The Bostonians (1984). Among the films she wrote specifically for cinema are Heat and Dust (1983) and Jefferson in Paris (1995). She died on April 3, 2013, in New York, United States.

• 12 May 2024
• Salma El-Sharkawy