93. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala — Heat and Dust with Brigitte Hales

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

As Merchant Ivory super fans, we were surprised (and chagrined!) that we’d been unaware of Ismael Merchant and James Ivory’s longtime collaborator, novelist and Academy Award winning-screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Hollywood screenwriter Brigitte Hales joins us to discuss Jhabvala and her Booker Prize-winning 1975 novel, Heat and Dust. 

Discussed in this episode

Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Brigitte Hales 

Disenchanted (2022 film)

Merchant Ivory Productions

A Room with a View (1985 film)

Howard’s End (1992 film)

The Householder by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Nissim Ezekiel

The Householder (1963 film)

Heat and Dust (1983 film)

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