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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1927–2013
Born Cologne, Germany
Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala became a British citizen in 1948 and later moved to India with her husband, where she lived for over two decades. Recognized for her fiction about life there, she adapted her novel The Householder (1960) to the screen for Merchant Ivory Productions in the early 1960s. She won England's prestigious Booker Prize for Heat and Dust
in 1975 and shortly thereafter moved to New York City, where she continued to write novels and screenplays as a way to examine individual identity in a fluid, polyglot world. In 1986, Prawer Jhabvala became a naturalized U.S. citizen, and the following year she received an Academy Award for her screen adaptation of E. M.Forster's novel, A Room with a View. She garnered a second Academy Award for her original screenplay Howard's End (1992).
Bernard Gotfryd (1924–2016)
Gelatin silver print, c.1975 |