Jhabvala

/ dʒæbˈvɑːlə /

noun

1. JhabvalaRuth Prawer19272013FBritishGermanWRITING: writer 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

Example Sentences

The filmmakers are masters of literary adaptation, thanks in no small part to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

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Another thing about it was that Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote a perfect screenplay.

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They worked with screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and composer Richard Robbins on more than half of them.

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Actress Emma Thompson sees “The Remains of the Day,” which she starred in for the filmmakers, as being “about people in disguise . . . because of society and culture,” and explains how that theme spoke to her as well as to Merchant, Ivory and Jhabvala.

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But a post on X from Washington Post NFL reporter Nicki Jhabvala showed Quinn at an airport in the Washington area headed out of town with his interview with the Commanders apparently over.

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