Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was born in Cologne to a Jewish family who escaped to England in 1939. She married an Indian architect, moved to Delhi in 1951 and wrote novels about Indian life, including Heat and Dust, which won the Booker Prize in 1975. Later moving to New York, she wrote screenplays for Merchant Ivory, winning two Oscars. Few writers have worked so successfully across three countries.