Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1927–2013

German-born British and American novelist and screenwriter. Born to a Jewish family in Cologne, she fled Nazi Germany in 1939, became a British citizen in 1948 and took an MA in English at Queen Mary College, London. After marrying the Indian architect Cyrus Jhabvala in 1951 she lived in Delhi, writing novels including To Whom She Will and The Householder. With James Ivory and Ismail Merchant she wrote screenplays, winning Oscars for A Room with a View and Howards End. She moved to New York in 1975 and died there in 2013. Heat and Dust won the 1975 Booker Prize.

Timeline of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s life

Works

• Heat and Dust (1975)

Prizes

• Heat and Dust — The Booker Prize 1975: Winner, Shortlist