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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born of Polish parents in Cologne, Germany. She moved to England with her family in 1939. In 1951 she married Indian architect C.S.H. Jhabvala and moved with him to India. Jhabvala is the author of twelve novels, includingHeat and Dust, which was awarded Britain's prestigious Booker Prize. She is a MacArthur Fellow and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A talented screenwriter, Jhabvala has earned two Academy Awards (A Room With a View and Howards End) with her work for Merchant-Ivory Productions. She is currently preparing a screen adaptation ofThe Golden Bowl. Jhabvala and her husband divide their time between Delhi and New York.