That year, she moved to New York where she wrote The Place of Peace. In 1975, she won the Booker Prize for her novel Heat and Dust, later adapted into a film. She collaborated with Ivory for the screenplays for Bombay Talkie (1970) and ABC After-school Specials: William - The Life and Times of William Shakespeare (1973). During her years in India, she wrote scripts for the Merchant-Ivory duo for The Guru (1969) and Autobiography of a Princess (1975). The Householder, with a screenplay by Jhabvala, was filmed in 1963 by Merchant and Ivory. It was followed by Esmond in India (1957), The Householder (1960) and Get Ready for Battle (1963).
Her first novel, To Whom She Will, was published in 1955. Ruth Prawer lived in India for 24 years from 1951. Prawer attended Hendon County School (now Hendon School) and then Queen Mary College, where she received an MA in English literature in 1951.
The following year, her father committed suicide after discovering that 40 members of his family had been murdered during the Holocaust. Charles Dickens' works and Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind kept her company through the war years, and she read the latter book while taking refuge in air raid shelters during the Luftwaffe 's bombing of London. ĭuring World War II, Prawer lived in Hendon in London, experienced the Blitz and began to speak English rather than German. Her elder brother, Siegbert Salomon Prawer (1925–2012), an expert on Heinrich Heine and horror films, was fellow of The Queen's College and Taylor Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.
The family was among the last group of refugees to flee the Nazi regime in 1939, emigrating to Britain. Her father was accused of communist links, arrested and released, and she witnessed the violence unleashed against the Jews during the Kristallnacht. Marcus was a lawyer who moved to Germany from Poland to escape conscription and Eleanora's father was cantor of Cologne's largest synagogue. Ruth Prawer was born in Cologne, Germany to Jewish parents Marcus and Eleanora (Cohn) Prawer. She is the only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar. 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 Merchant. She began then to elaborate her experiences in India and wrote novels and tales on Indian subjects. In 1951, she married Indian architect Cyrus Jhabvala and moved to New Delhi. She is best known for her collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of film director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala CBE ( née Prawer – 3 April 2013) was a German-born novelist and screenwriter.
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