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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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Artist
Bernard Gotfryd, 1924 - 03 Jun 2016
Sitter
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 7 May 1927 - 3 Apr 2013
Exhibition Label
Born Cologne, Germany
Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala became a British citizen in 1948 and later moved to India with her husband, where she lived for over two decades. Recognized for her fiction about life there, she adapted her novel The Householder (1960) to the screen for Merchant Ivory Productions in the early 1960s. She won England’s prestigious Booker Prize for Heat and Dust in 1975 and shortly thereafter moved to New York City, where she continued to write novels and screenplays as a way to examine individual identity in a fluid, polyglot world.
In 1986, Prawer Jhabvala became a naturalized U.S. citizen, and the following year she received an Academy Award for her screen adaptation of E. M. Forster’s novel, A Room with a View. She garnered a second Academy Award for her original screenplay Howard’s End (1992).
Nacida en Colonia, Alemania
La alemana de padres judíos Ruth Prawer Jhabvala obtuvo la ciudadanía británica en 1948 y luego vivió con su esposo en la India durante más de dos décadas. Reconocida por sus obras de ficción sobre la vida en aquel país, adaptó al cine su novela El jefe de familia (1960) para Merchant Ivory Productions a principios de los sesenta. En 1975 obtuvo el prestigioso Premio Booker en Inglaterra por Calor y polvo. Poco después se mudó a Nueva York, donde continuó escribiendo novelas y guiones que examinan la identidad del individuo en un fluido mundo políglota.
En 1986, Prawer Jhabvala obtuvo la ciudadanía estadounidense y al año siguiente recibió un Oscar por su adaptación cinematográfica de la novela de E. M. Forster Una habitación con vistas. Ganó un segundo Oscar por su guion original Regreso a Howard’s End (1992).
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
c. 1975
Object number
NPG.2013.101
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Copyright
© The Bernard Gotfryd Revocable Living Trust
Type
Photograph
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 24.5 × 19.7 cm (9 5/8 × 7 3/4")
Sheet: 25.2 × 20.2 cm (9 15/16 × 7 15/16")
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Interior
Nature & Environment\Plant
Architecture\Window
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: Female
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: Literature\Writer
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: Literature\Writer\Novelist
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: Literature\Writer\Screenwriter
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Record ID
npg_NPG.2013.101
Metadata Usage (text)
Usage conditions apply
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4166dd4b6-ca22-4940-8ced-dcbf7ade363d

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