Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer ( 1927 – ),novelist, born in Germany, the daughter of a Polish Jewish solicitor; she came to England in 1939 as a refugee and was educated in London. In 1951 she married an Indian architect, and subsequently lived for 24 years in India, where she wrote several novels including Esmond in India ( 1958 ), A New Dominion ( 1973 ), and Heat and Dust ( 1975 , Booker Prize ), all of which reflect her mingled affection for and impatience with her adopted country and show intimate knowledge of the lives of both Indian and European families. She published volumes of short stories and wrote several original screenplays, including Shakespeare-Wallah ( 1965 ), the story of a troupe of travelling actors, and adaptations of E. M. Forster's A Room with a View and Howards End . In 1975 she moved to New York, where her novel In Search of Love and Beauty (...
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