Sir Tom Stoppard is an influential British playwright, knighted in 1997. In 1939, Stoppard left Czechoslovakia as a child refugee, fleeing imminent Nazi occupation. He settled with his family in Britain after the war, in 1946. After being educated by schools in Nottingham and Yorkshire, Stoppard became a journalist, a drama critic, and then, in 1960, a playwright.
He has written for TV, radio, film, and stage. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love and has won one Academy Award and four Tony Awards. Stoppard has been a key playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation.
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