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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1927 - 2013

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (née Prawer; 7 May 1927 – 3 April 2013) was a British and American novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for her collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of film director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant. In 1951, she married Indian architect Cyrus Jhabvala and moved to New Delhi. She began then to elaborate her experiences in India and wrote novels and tales on Indian subjects. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is the 4,338th most popular writer (up from 4,896th in 2019), the 4,304th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,616th in 2019) and the 262nd most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ranks 4,338 out of 7,302. Before her are Elisabeth Langgässer, Philippa Gregory, Yuri Bondarev, Walter Savage Landor, Robert Jungk, and Joss Whedon. After her are Eva Kotchever, Eudora Welty, Giuseppe Adami, Astrid Ivask, John Lyly, and Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ranks 286. Before her are Charles Pasqua, Qurratulain Hyder, Herbert W. Franke, Yevgeny Morgunov, Greta Andersen, and Karl Stotz. After her are Otto Stich, Hsing Yun, Jan Myrdal, Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, Lars Hall, and Trude Beiser. Among people deceased in 2013, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ranks 285. Before her are Gerino Gerini, Olena Chekan, Antonio Puchades, Ramon Dekkers, Maria Tallchief, and Donald Byrd. After her are Nadezhda Popova, Bobby Bland, Ingvar Rydell, August Schellenberg, Ružica Sokić, and Ivan Bodiul.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ranks 4,306 out of 7,253. Before her are Hilde Schrader (1910), Stefan Kuntz (1962), Elisabeth Langgässer (1899), Erika Böhm-Vitense (1923), Gotthard Handrick (1908), and Robert Jungk (1913). After her are Martin Bangemann (1934), Alfred Landé (1888), Therese Giehse (1898), Mika'ela Fisher (1975), Carl Joachim Friedrich (1901), and Heinz Kubsch (1930).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ranks 262. Before her are Max Lange (1832), Emanuel Geibel (1815), James Krüss (1926), Joachim Ringelnatz (1883), Elisabeth Langgässer (1899), and Robert Jungk (1913). After her are Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916), Bel Kaufman (1911), Konrad von Würzburg (1225), Kito Lorenc (1938), Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1744), and Ludwig Bechstein (1801).

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