To Dust!

In the memory of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, only writer who own both Oscar and Booker. She always stayed away from limelight and lived a quite life.

Ruth Prawer was born in Cologne, Germany to Jewish parents Marcus and Eleanora Prawer. Marcus was a lawyer who moved to Germany from Poland to escape conscription and Eleanora's father was cantor of Cologne's largest synagogue. The family fled the Nazi regime in 1939, emigrating to Britain.

During World War II, Jhabvala lived in Hendon in London, experienced the Blitz and began to speak English rather than German. She became a British citizen in 1948. The following year, her father committed suicide after discovering that forty members of his family had died during the Holocaust. Jhabvala attended Hendon County School and then Queen Mary College, where she received an MA in English literature in 1951.

In 1951, Prawer married Cyrus H. Jhabvala, an Indian Parsi architect. The couple moved to Delhi, India, and they had three daughters: Ava, Firoza and Renana. Her three daughters are living in three different countries, India, the United States and England. In 1975 Jhabvala moved to New York and divided her time between India and the United States. In 1986, she became a naturalised citizen of the United States.

In 1963, Jhabvala was approached by filmmakers James Ivory and Ismail Merchant to write a screenplay of her 1960 novel The Householder. The film, The Householder, was released by Merchant Ivory Productions in 1963 – this began a partnership that would produce over 20 films. She had no previous film making experience. The next Merchant-Ivory project Shakespeare Wallah (1965), was a critical success, and it was followed by a number of other collaborations between the three, including an adaptation of Jhabvala's novel Heat and Dust, (1983); the docudrama The Courtesans of Bombay (1983); A Room with a View (1985), for which she won her first Oscar; Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990); Howards End (1992), her second Oscar win; and The Remains of the Day (1993), for which she was nominated for a third Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, though she did not win. Her screenplays are often less comedies of manners than profound struggles over the souls of young women.

She also own a  Booker Prize for Heat and Dust and only writer to own Oscar and Booker.

Jhabvala died in her home in New York City on 3 April 2013 at the age of 85. Jhabvala is survived by her husband and three daughters.

one day, everyone have to go and there is no escape from death, Socrates, left behind this beautiful quote.

!!!The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows. – Socrates!!!