UK - Sir Tom Stoppard, Czech born British playwright, dead at 88

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RIP Sir Tom Stoppard: The woman-loving wordsmith who fled Hitler to become the greatest (and wittiest) playwright of his generation​

Nobody seemed to have quite so much fun with the English language as Sir Tom Stoppard. And few British playwrights were as revered or decorated.

Not bad, considering English wasn’t his native tongue. Yet the cricket-loving Czech-born emigre – who died yesterday aged 88 – once said he felt instantly at home when he arrived here as an eight-year-old, his family having fled the Nazis.

From that moment he never stopped writing. In time he would be hailed as a titan of drama, our most celebrated modern-era playwright, with a body of brilliant, creative and innovative work that captured political and philosophical themes. Quite simply, said friends last night, there was no other writer like him.

RIP Sir Tom Stoppard: The woman-loving wordsmith who fled Hitler

Nobody seemed to have quite so much fun with the English language as Sir Tom Stoppard. And few British playwrights were as revered or decorated.

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