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Born July 3, 1937, Zlin, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) - British playwright, director, screenwriter and critic.

At the beginning of the German invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Straussler family fled to Singapore. In connection with the threat of imminent Japanese invasion in 1941, the mother and her two sons were forced to flee further to India; and his father, a doctor at the Bata shoe company, along with its other male workers, was left in Singapore, interned by Japanese troops after their capture of the city, and died in a bombardment at sea.

In 1946, Tomas's mother married a second time - to the major of the British army Kenneth Stoppard, and left with him to England. The stepfather, giving the boys his surname, did everything to make them real British. Tom attended private boarding schools in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire. In 1954 - at the age of 17 - he was kicked out of school and took up journalism, contributing to the Bristol newspapers. Arriving in London in 1960, he began writing for radio and television, and worked as a theater critic under the pseudonym William Boot.

In 1967, his first feature film, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, was staged at the National Theater. This was followed by other award-winning works.

In the 1970s, Stoppard's international political activity begins. In February 1977, he traveled to Moscow for the first time, together with Amnesty International staff.

In June Stoppard met with Vladimir Bukovsky in London and went to Czechoslovakia. There he met the opposition playwright Vaclav Havel, to whom he dedicated his next play, The Professional Trick, in the foreword to which he wrote that the reason for its creation was the appearance of Charter 77. Stoppard also translated some of Havel's work into English; has worked for Index on Censorship, a free speech journal, and for the Commission Against Psychiatric Abuse. In 1983, the Tom Stoppard Prize for unofficial Czech authors was founded in Stockholm.

In 1997 knighted. Member of the Royal Society of Literature.

August 28 - September 2, 2005 Stoppard came to Minsk at the invitation of Natalia Kolyada and Nikolai Khalezin, directors of the Belarusian Free Theater project. Stoppard, along with his friend former Czech President Vaclav Havel and American playwright Artur Kopit, are supporting the project.

During the summer of 2011, Stoppard often visited Moscow, helping to stage the production of his play "Rock'n'roll" at the RAMT.

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