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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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Screenwriter Born: May 7, 1927 in Cologne, Germany Biography:Novelist and screenwriter "Ruth Prawer Jhabvala" was born Ruth Prawer in Cologne, Germany, on May 7, 1927. The daughter of Polish-Jewish parents, she came to England as a young refugee with her family in 1939. After attending London University, where she studied English, Prawer married Indian architect C.S.H. Jhabvala in 1951 and moved to New Delhi. It was there that she began writing; during the mid-'50s, most of her novels and short stories were published in England -- many of her stories centered on the culture clash between the Indians and the British colonialists. By the mid-'60s, Jhabvala was writing screenplays and had begun a long, productive association with the filmmaking team of "James Ivory" and "Ismail Merchant", who first collaborated with her on their filmed version of her novel "The Householder" (1962). Her work with the two resulted in a number of distinguished films that focused on... Full Biography
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