Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, who received an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Shakespeare In Love, has died on the age of 88.
An announcement from United Brokers mentioned: “We’re deeply saddened to announce that our beloved shopper and buddy, Tom Stoppard, has died peacefully at dwelling in Dorset, surrounded by his household.
“He will be remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, his irreverence, his generosity of spirit and his profound love of the English language.
“It was an honour to work with Tom and to know him.”
King Charles said in a tribute: “My spouse and I are deeply saddened to study of the dying of one among our best writers, Sir Tom Stoppard. A pricey buddy who wore his genius flippantly, he may, and did, flip his pen to any topic, difficult, shifting and galvanizing his audiences, borne from his personal private historical past.
“We send our most heartfelt sympathy to his beloved family. Let us all take comfort in his immortal line: ‘Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else’.”
Sir Tom’s leisure profession spanned greater than six many years, wherein he received a number of Tony and Olivier awards, in addition to the Golden Globe and Academy Award with Marc Norman for his or her 1998 screenplay Shakespeare In Love – starring fellow Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Sir Tom Stoppard in 1999. Pic: PA
His work, identified to mix mind, emotion and humour, usually explored philosophical and political themes, difficult societal norms to remind audiences of the ability of thought.
His different award-winning performs included Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Lifeless, The Actual Factor and Travesties.
The playwright additionally wrote prolifically for TV, radio and movie, together with adapting Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina for the 2012 movie starring Keira Knightley and Jude Regulation, and TV sequence Parade’s Finish with Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Corridor – tailored from novels by Ford Madox Ford.
He obtained numerous accolades and honours throughout his profession, together with being knighted by the late Queen for his companies to literature in 1997.
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Queen Elizabeth II shakes Sir Tom’s hand earlier than presenting him with the insignia of a Member of the Order of Advantage in 2000. File pic: PA
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Sir Tom meets then Prince Charles in 2009. File pic: PA
He received the David Cohen Prize For Literature in 2017, following within the footsteps of laureates Harold Pinter, Hilary Mantel and Seamus Heaney.
Sir Tom launched his semi-autobiographical work titled Leopoldstadt in 2020 – set within the Jewish quarter of early twentieth century Vienna – which later received him an Olivier award for greatest new play and likewise scooped 4 Tony awards.
The West Finish play, which featured his son Ed Stoppard, additionally noticed him honoured by PEN America, the literary and human rights organisation, which handed him the Mike Nichols Writing for Efficiency Award.
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From refugee to playwrighting sensation
Sir Tom was born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia, however fled and adjusted his identify amid the Nazi occupation, discovering refuge in Britain in 1946.
He turned a journalist in Bristol in 1954 earlier than turning into a theatre critic and writing performs for radio and TV, together with The Stand-Ins, later revised as The Actual Inspector Hound, and Albert’s Bridge first broadcast by BBC Radio.
His profession took off with hit play Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Lifeless, which premiered on the Edinburgh Fringe Competition in 1966, earlier than it was produced for the Nationwide Theatre and on Broadway, successful 4 Tony awards in 1968 together with greatest play.
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Sir Tom Stoppard and Dame Judi Dench at a photocall in London in 1999. File pic: PA
Sir Tom started advocating on behalf of Soviet and Japanese Bloc dissidents after writing Each Good Boy Deserves Favour, a play impressed by his friendship with Viktor Fainberg, who had been imprisoned in Czechoslovakia by the Soviets.
A lot later, in 2002, his trilogy of performs set in nineteenth century Russia, The Coast Of Utopia, have been staged on the Nationwide Theatre.
His most up-to-date performs embody Heroes, Rock ‘n’ Roll and The Onerous Downside.
