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Britain Obit Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard, often hailed as one of the greatest playwrights of his generation, has died aged 88.

The Czech-born British writer died at his home in Dorset, England, according to an announcement by United Agents, which represented him.

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“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,” the agency said.  “It was an honour to work with Tom and to know him.”

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Stoppard won countless awards throughout his career, across theater, television, film, and radio. His work is known for its prolific use of history and comedy, often at the same time, as a foundation for answering philosophical questions about life and art.

He won Tony Awards for his plays Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1968), Travesties (1976), The Real Thing (1984), The Coast of Utopia (2007), and Leopoldstadt (2023).

He won an Oscar for co-writing the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love and was credited for his work on the scripts for Hollywood blockbusters like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Stoppard continued writing into his later years. His last play, Leopoldstadt, a semi-autobiographical work loosely based on his family’s history, premiered in 2020.

Writing about the play in 2022, TIME described the play’s theme as “the vagaries of memory and how people fare in the erratic habits of history.” 

He told TIME in an interview accompanying that story: “Put it this way, if I was going to finish with this play, I wanted to finish with something substantial.”

“Insofar as comedy and tragedy pass through me,” he added, “they emerge intricately connected.”

Stoppard was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997 for his services to literature.

He is survived by four children, including the actor Ed Stoppard, and several grandchildren.

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