Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala CBE 7 May 1927 3 April 2013 was a Germanborn British and American Booker prizewinning novelist short story writer and twotime Academy Awardwinning screenwriter She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions made up of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant After meeting Cyrus Jhabvala in England she married him and moved to India in 1951 Jhabvala was an IndianParsi architect The couple lived in New Delhi and had three daughters Jhabvala began then to elaborate her experiences in India and wrote novels and tales on Indian subjects She wrote a dozen novels 23 screenplays and eight collections of short stories and was made a CBE in 1998 and granted a joint fellowship by BAFTA in 2002 with Ivory and MerchantShe is the only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar