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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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May 07, 1927 in Cologne, Germany

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Literature & Fiction, History, Entertainment

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE is a Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant. Their films won six Academy Awards.

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Books by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Average rating: 3.52 · 1,757 ratings · 167 reviews · 28 distinct works

	Heat and Dust 3.53 avg rating — 1,172 ratings — published 1975 — 27 editions	My rating:
	Out of India: Selected Stories 3.60 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Householder 3.80 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1960 — 5 editions	My rating:
	My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past 3.09 avg rating — 53 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	Esmond In India 3.56 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1958 — 4 editions	My rating:
	East Into Upper East: Plain Tales from New York and New Delhi 3.41 avg rating — 37 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Poet and Dancer 3.03 avg rating — 33 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Three Continents 3.38 avg rating — 32 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	A Backward Place 3.46 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Travelers 2.93 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1973 — 4 editions	My rating:

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