Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE (b. Cologne, Germany, 7 May 1927 – d. 3 April 2013, NY City, USA) was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. After meeting Cyrus Jhabvala in England, she married him and moved to India in 1951. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant.
