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Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
Sir Tom Stoppard won an Oscar, Golden Globe, and multiple Tony and Olivier awards during a six-decade career blending wit with profound literary themes.
- United Agents announced Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright, has died at age 88, saying he `died peacefully at home in Dorset, surrounded by his family.`
- Born in Czechoslovakia, Sir Tom Stoppard fled the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain, where he learned English and began his career as a journalist and theatre critic in Bristol.
- His play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before transferring to the National Theatre and Broadway, and he won an Academy Award and Golden Globe for co-writing Shakespeare in Love.
- Across his six-decade career, Sir Tom Stoppard earned Tony and Olivier awards, Leopoldstadt won an Olivier for best new play, he was knighted by the late Queen, and received the David Cohen Prize For Literature and PEN America's Mike Nichols Writing for Performance Award.
- He spent more than six decades captivating audiences, advocating for dissidents inspired by Viktor Fainberg in Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, and writing for TV, radio, and film including Anna Karenina and Parade's End.
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Originally from Czechoslovakia, which he had fled when the Nazis arrived, Tom Stoppard was one of the most famous British playwrights.
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