Her career as a screenwriter developed after Ismail Merchant and James Ivory asked her to develop a script based on her 1960 novel "The Householder, " published when she was living as an expatriate in Delhi.

WSJ: Award-Winning Author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Dies at 85

"Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has been a beloved member of the Merchant Ivory family since 1960, comprising one-third of our indomitable trifecta that included director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant, " said the company's director of development, Neil Jesuele.

WSJ: Oscar winner, author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dies

Most of the action takes place in the cavernous kitchen of a Swedish castle, and Figgis is to be commended for not opening up the play into a series of repressed arguments in the brambles (as a James Ivory film would do).

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James was from Ivory Coast, and immediately after graduation he went to work for Ivory soap, but I don't think there's any connection.

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The ambassador said the embargo would favour the New Forces, arguing that they have always been able to obtain arms by illegal means, the BBC's James Copnall in Ivory Coast reports.

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Richard Dunne did brilliantly to deny the big Ivory Coast striker when he skipped inside James Collins and made for goal, but did rather less well from the resulting corner.

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