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Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, who won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Shakespeare In Love, has died astatine the property of 88.
A connection from United Agents said: "We are profoundly saddened to denote that our beloved lawsuit and friend, Tom Stoppard, has died peacefully astatine location successful Dorset, surrounded by his family.
"He volition beryllium remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, his irreverence, his generosity of tone and his profound emotion of the English language.
"It was an honour to enactment with Tom and to cognize him."
King Charles said successful a tribute: "My woman and I are profoundly saddened to larn of the decease of 1 of our top writers, Sir Tom Stoppard. A beloved person who wore his genius lightly, helium could, and did, crook his pen to immoderate subject, challenging, moving and inspiring his audiences, borne from his ain idiosyncratic history.
"We nonstop our astir heartfelt sympathy to his beloved family. Let america each instrumentality comfortableness successful his immortal line: 'Look connected each exit arsenic being an entranceway determination else'."
Sir Tom's amusement vocation spanned much than six decades, successful which helium won a big of Tony and Olivier awards, arsenic good arsenic the Golden Globe and Academy Award with Marc Norman for their 1998 screenplay Shakespeare In Love - starring chap Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow.
His work, known to blend intellect, emotion and humour, often explored philosophical and governmental themes, challenging societal norms to punctual audiences of the powerfulness of thought.
His different award-winning plays included Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Thing and Travesties.
The playwright besides wrote prolifically for TV, vigor and film, including adapting Leo Tolstoy's caller Anna Karenina for the 2012 movie starring Keira Knightley and Jude Law, and TV bid Parade's End with Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall - adapted from novels by Ford Madox Ford.
He received countless accolades and honours during his career, including being knighted by the precocious Queen for his services to lit successful 1997.
He won the David Cohen Prize For Literature successful 2017, pursuing successful the footsteps of laureates Harold Pinter, Hilary Mantel and Seamus Heaney.
Sir Tom released his semi-autobiographical enactment titled Leopoldstadt successful 2020 - acceptable successful the Jewish 4th of aboriginal 20th period Vienna - which aboriginal won him an Olivier grant for champion caller play and besides scooped 4 Tony awards.
The West End play, which featured his lad Ed Stoppard, besides saw him honoured by PEN America, the literate and quality rights organisation, which handed him the Mike Nichols Writing for Performance Award.
From exile to playwrighting sensation
Sir Tom was calved Tomas Straussler successful Czechoslovakia, but fled and changed his sanction amid the Nazi occupation, uncovering refuge successful Britain successful 1946.
He became a writer successful Bristol successful 1954 earlier becoming a theatre professional and penning plays for vigor and TV, including The Stand-Ins, aboriginal revised arsenic The Real Inspector Hound, and Albert's Bridge archetypal broadcast by BBC Radio.
His vocation took disconnected with deed play Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, which premiered astatine the Edinburgh Fringe Festival successful 1966, earlier it was produced for the National Theatre and connected Broadway, winning 4 Tony awards successful 1968 including champion play.
Sir Tom began advocating connected behalf of Soviet and Eastern Bloc dissidents aft penning Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, a play inspired by his relationship with Viktor Fainberg, who had been imprisoned successful Czechoslovakia by the Soviets.
Much later, successful 2002, his trilogy of plays acceptable successful 19th period Russia, The Coast Of Utopia, were staged astatine the National Theatre.
His astir caller plays see Heroes, Rock 'n' Roll and The Hard Problem.
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