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WRITER

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1927 - 2013

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (née Prawer; 7 May 1927 – 3 April 2013) was a British and American novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for her collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of film director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant.In 1951, she married Indian architect Cyrus Jhabvala and moved to New Delhi. She began then to elaborate her experiences in India and wrote novels and tales on Indian subjects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has received more than 613,008 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is the 5,044th most popular writer (down from 4,213th in 2019), the 4,366th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,652nd in 2019) and the 293rd most popular German Writer.

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.07

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  • 5.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ranks 5,044 out of 5,755Before her are Yordan Radichkov, Michael Herr, Ralph Giordano, Cornelia Sorabji, Miron Białoszewski, and Vladimir Bogomolov. After her are Atis Kronvalds, Joseph Victor von Scheffel, Alain Decaux, Jonathan Stroud, Herberto Hélder, and Robert J. Sawyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ranks 330Before her are Peter Mark Richman, Tina Anselmi, Trude Beiser, Walter Giller, Willy De Clercq, and Gerard Cieślik. After her are Karl Stotz, Andy Stanfield, Mose Allison, József Sákovics, Barbara Rush, and Robert Alt. Among people deceased in 2013, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ranks 341Before her are Manna Dey, Masae Kasai, Ersilio Tonini, Gerard Cieślik, Jan Zwartkruis, and Judit Temes. After her are Lucyna Winnicka, Yvonne Brill, Narendra Dabholkar, Denys de La Patellière, Alfonso Lara, and Eddi Arent.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ranks 4,366 out of 6,142Before her are Lou Bega (1975), Shantel (1968), Ralph Giordano (1923), Wilhelm Brinkmann (1910), Wilhelm Baumann (1912), and Yıldıray Baştürk (1978). After her are W. Michael Blumenthal (1926), Karl-Friedrich Haas (1931), Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826), Wolfram Löwe (1945), Wolfgang Dremmler (1954), and Christoph Höhne (1941).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ranks 293Before her are August Spies (1855), Horst Faas (1933), Adolf Bartels (1862), Günther Jauch (1956), Ulrich Plenzdorf (1934), and Ralph Giordano (1923). After her are Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826), Wilhelm Geiger (1856), Elisabeth Langgässer (1899), Ludwig Ganghofer (1855), Franz Xaver Kroetz (1946), and Nathan Zach (1930).