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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala


Germany (1927 - 2013)

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 the Indian architect C.S.H. Jhabvala. They lived in Delhi from 1951 to 1975. Since then they have divided their time between Delhi, New York and London. As well as her numerous novels and short stories, in collaboration with James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has written scripts for film and television, including A Room with a View and Howards End, both of which are Academy Award winners. She won the Booker Prize for Heat and Dust in 1975, the Neil Gunn International Fellowship in 1978, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1984 and was made a CBE in the 1998 New Year's Honours List.
 
 
Novels
   To Whom She Will (1955)
     aka Amrita
   The Nature of Passion (1956)
   Esmond in India (1958)
   The Householder (1960)
   Get Ready for Battle (1962)
   A Backward Place (1965)
   A New Dominion (1972)
     aka Travelers
   Heat and Dust (1975)
   In Search of Love and Beauty (1983)
   Three Continents (1987)
   Poet and Dancer (1993)
   Shards of Memory (1995)
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Anthologies containing stories by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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The Best American Short Stories 2014 (2014)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Jennifer Egan
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Nothing But You (1997)
Love Stories from the New Yorker
edited by
Roger Angell

Awards
Booker Prize Best Novel winner (1975) : Heat and Dust


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