Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ( born May 7, 1927 in Cologne, † April 3, 2013 in New York City ) was a British novelist and screenwriter (two Oscars ). She worked more than four decades closely with the director duo Ismail Merchant and James Ivory.
Life
She was born as Ruth Prawer in a Polish- German Jewish family. Her mother's maiden name was Eleanora Cohn, her father 's lawyer Marcus Prawer. Her parents emigrated in 1939 with her and her older brother, Siegbert Salomon Prawer ( 1925-2012 ) from the National Socialist German Reich to England. In 1948 she became a British citizen. Her father committed suicide in the same year, when he found out that 40 family members in the Holocaust were killed; Ruth never came to Germany.
She studied at the University of London English literature and married Cyrus SH Jhabvala 1951, an Indian architect and parsing. The couple moved to New Delhi and started a family; they had three daughters. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala began to process their new experiences in India and wrote literary novels and short stories.
In 1955 she published her first book, To Whom She Will ( Amrita and Hari, 1956), a story about the young Indian woman Amrita which was unethical to niederkastigen Hari - her how she feels great love - want to get married, ultimately to the captivity in the respective social conventions fails. In quick succession Prawer Jhabvala published other stories that the leave with raw and insight are plastically for the Europeans strangers in the conditions of the Indian society and in a slightly ironic undertone. She is critical, the Indian but not denounced. She has published since 1957, 31 of her short stories in the New Yorker.
Merchant Ivory Productions came in 1963 with a request to write a screenplay for her 1960 novel, The Householder, up to her. Thus began a more than 20 films lasting partnership with international success, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s. There arose A Room With a View (1986, Room with a View ), Howards End (1992, Howards End) and The Remains of the Day (1993, What Remains of the Day ). For the scripts of the first two films Ruth Prawer Jhabvala were each awarded the Oscar; in both films was the novel by EM Forster.
In 1975, she received the prestigious British Booker Prize for her novel Heat and Dust ( heat and dust, dt 1985), which was filmed in 1982. In 1984 she was MacArthur Fellow.
On April 3, 2013 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala died at the age of 85 from a pulmonary illness at her home.