Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala · Arts & Literature
Refugee from Nazi Germany; two Academy Awards for A Room with a View and Howards End
1927, Cologne, Germany — 2013, New York City, USA
Germany · India · United Kingdom · United States
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Refugee from Nazi Germany; two Academy Awards for A Room with a View and Howards End
Jhabvala was a novelist and screenwriter, the long-time writing partner of Merchant Ivory Productions, who won two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay: for 'A Room with a View' (1986) and 'Howards End' (1992). She is the only person to have won both the Booker Prize (for fiction) and an Oscar. Born to a Jewish family in Cologne, she fled Nazi Germany with her family in 1939 to Britain before later living in India and the United States.
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Refugee from Nazi Germany; two Academy Awards for A Room with a View and Howards End
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters
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