Screenwriter and novelist dies. February 2002 photo of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the Oscar-winning writer of A Room with A View and Howards End. Photo: PA. Oscar-winning screenwriter and award-winning novelist Ruth
Screenwriter and award-winning novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has died. She was 85.
She also won the Booker Prize for her 1975 novel Heat and Dust, meaning she was the only person to have won an Oscar and the Booker. Born in Germany, she fled the Nazis as a schoolgirl and spent much of her life in India. She died at home in New York.
She also won the Booker Prize for her 1975 novel Heat and Dust, meaning she was the only person to have won an Oscar and the Booker. Born in Germany, she fled the Nazis as a schoolgirl and spent much of her life in India. She died at home in New York.
Oscar winner dies: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, an Oscar-winning screenwriter and award-winning novelist with a long association with Merchant Ivory Productions, has died. She was 85. Jhabvala won two Academy Awards for her adaptations of the E.M. Forster
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