Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard was, for my money, the most dazzling wordsmith the modern stage has produced. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead announced him as a once-in-a-generation talent, and plays like Arcadia and The Real Thing only deepened my awe at how he fused intellectual fireworks with real emotional ache. He won an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love, but it's his theatre that I treasure, dense with ideas about love, time, art, and freedom. Born Tomas Straussler and shaped by exile, he brought a refugee's hard-won perspective to everything. He passed away in late 2025, and the world of letters lost one of its sharpest minds.

Name (English)

Tom Stoppard

Name (Japanese)

トム・ストッパード

Reading

とむ・すとっぱーど

Born

July 3, 1937 (age 89)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Ox

Origin

Zlín, Zlín Region, Czech Republic

Occupation

playwright / screenwriter / journalist / film director / translator

Awards & achievements

• Laurence Olivier Awards
• 1978 Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• 2013 PEN Pinter Prize
• 2013 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
• 1999 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay
• 2009 Praemium Imperiale
• 1999 Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
• 2008 Dan David Prize

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%83%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89

Tags

• Zlín Region
• playwright
• screenwriter
• journalist

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.