Auteur: Kenneth Tynan

Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard was born Tomás Straüssler on 3 July 1937 in Zlín, Czechoslovakia. He grew up in Singapore and India during the Second World War and moved to England in 1946 with his mother and stepfather, his own father having been killed in Singapore. He began writing plays for radio and television, including The Dissolution of Dominic Boot (1964), A Walk on the Water, televised in 1963, The Stand-Ins, later revised as The Real Inspector Hound (1968), and Albert”s Bridge (1968) was first broadcast by BBC Radio in 1967. Other stage plays include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967), The Real Thing in 1982, Heroes (2005), Rock “n” Roll (2006) and The Hard Problem (2015). His trilogy of plays set in 19th century Russia, The Coast of Utopia, was first staged at the National Theatre in 2002. Tom Stoppard was knighted in 1997. He lives in London.