Jhabvala

British  

/ dʒæbˈvɑːlə /

noun

1. Ruth Prawer, original name Ruth Prawer . 1927–2013, British writer living in India and the US, born in Germany to Polish parents: author of the Booker-prizewinning novel Heat and Dust (1975) and scripts for films by James Ivory

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Example Sentences

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, known for her screenplays with the Merchant-Ivory filmmaking team, also wrote short stories that burrowed into the lives of characters from around the world.

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Because these portrayals are so acute and unsparing, Jhabvala is sometimes described as a satirist.

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Jhabvala disclosed those truths with candor, sensitivity and wit.

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I have lived, Jhabvala said, like “a cuckoo forever insinuating myself into others’ nests.”

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Sometimes Jhabvala needs only a few sentences to make a character indelible, as with the imperious matriarch of “Foreign Wives,” a story that returns to Delhi’s westernized upper crust: “Mrs. Clara Paniwala, trim, blond, fifty-five if a day, and wearing a skintight, poison-green silk dress, stood in the doorway, one hand on her hip: ‘Dreadful,’ she pronounced.”

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