Early years

Only in the early 1990s, after "the communists fell and the blind went up" did Stoppard learn from distant Czech relatives that all four of his grandparents had been Jewish and had died in Terezin, Auschwitz and other camps, along with three of his mother's sisters. After his parents' deaths, he returned with his elder brother to Zlin in 1998, for the first time in almost 60 years. Writing in Talk magazine in 1999, he expressed grief both for a lost father and a missing past. But he has no sense of being a survivor, at whatever remove. "I feel incredibly lucky not to have had to survive or die. It's a conspicuous part of what might be termed a charmed life."

He, [Stoppard] once wrote ironically of his childhood self, that he was "coming on well as an honorary Englishman". The world may be more open now to layered identities, but his unease remains. "I fairly often find I'm with people who forget I don't quite belong in the world we're in", he says. "I find I put a foot wrong - it could be pronunciation, an arcane bit of English history - and suddenly I'm there naked, as someone with a pass, a press ticket." His characters, he notes, are "constantly being addressed by the wrong name, with jokes and false trails to do with the confusion of having two names".

Career

Human rights activism

Relationships

• 1967: Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright (U.K.)
• 1967: Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (U.K.)
• 1968: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tony Award for Best Play, New York Drama Critics' Circle Best Play of the Year (U.S.), Prix Italia (Italy), Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award for Best New Play (U.K.)
• 1972: Jumpers - Evening Standard Award for Best Play, Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award for Best New Play (U.K)
• 1974: Travesties - Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy of the Year (U.K)
• 1976: Travesties - Tony Award for Best Play, New York Critics Award for Best Play (U.S.)
• 1978: Night and Day - Evening Standard Award for Best Play (U.K)
• 1982: The Real Thing - Evening Standard Award for Best Play (U.K.)
• 1984: The Real Thing - Tony Award for Best Play, New York Critics Award for Best Foreign Play (U.S.)
• 1993: Arcadia - Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Best New Play, Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the Year
• 1994: Arcadia - Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play (U.K.)
• 1997: The Invention of Love - Evening Standard Award for Best Play (U.K)
• 1998: Shakespeare in Love - Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (U.S.)
• 2000: The Real Thing - Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play (U.S.)
• 2000: The Real Thing - Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play (U.S.)
• 2007: The Coast of Utopia - Tony Award for Best Play (U.S)
• 2007: The Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts (presented on 3 April 2008 at the National Theatre) (U.K)
• 2008: The 2008 Dan David Prize for Creative Rendering of the Past in Theatre (Israeli)

• 1978: CBE
• 1997: Knight Bachelor
• 2000: Order of Merit
• 2000: Honorary doctorate from Yale University
• 2000: Honorary degree from Cambridge University
• 2009: Honorary Patronage of the University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin

• 1964: A Walk on the Water
• 1965: The Gamblers, based on the novel The Gambler by Dostoevsky
• 1966: Tango, adapted from Slawomir Mrozek's play and Nicholas Bethell translation, premiered at the Aldwych Theatre
• 1966: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
• 1968: Enter a Free Man . Developed from A Walk on the Water. First performed 28 March 1968.
• 1968: The Real Inspector Hound
• 1969: Albert's Bridge premiered at St. Mary's Hall in Edinburgh
• 1969: If You're Glad I'll Be Frank premiered at St. Mary's Hall in Edinburgh
• 1970: After Magritte frequently performed as a companion piece to The Real Inspector Hound
• 1971: Dogg's Our Pet premiered at Almost Free Theatre
• 1972: Jumpers
• 1972: Artist Descending a Staircase
• 1974: Travesties
• 1976: Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land first performed on 6 April 1976
• 1977: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour was written at the request of André Previn. The play calls for full orchestra
• 1978: Night and Day
• 1979: Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth - two plays written to be performed together.
• 1979: 15-Minute Hamlet
• 1979: Undiscovered Country - an adaptation of Das Weite Land by the Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler
• 1981: On the Razzle based on Einen Jux will er sich machen by Johann Nestroy
• 1982: The Real Thing
• 1983: English libretto for The Love for Three Oranges. Original opera by Sergei Prokofiev.
• 1984: Rough Crossing based on Play at the Castle by Ferenc Molnár
• 1986: Dalliance An adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's Liebelei
• 1987: Largo Desolato, translation of a play by Václav Havel
• 1988: Hapgood
• 1993: Arcadia
• 1995: Indian Ink - based on Stoppard's radio play In The Native State
• 1997: The Invention of Love
• 1997: The Seagull - translation of the play by Anton Chekhov
• 2002: The Coast of Utopia is a trilogy of plays: Voyage, Shipwreck, and Salvage
• 2004: Enrico IV (Henry IV) - translation of the Italian play by Luigi Pirandello First presented at the Donmar Theatre, London, in April 2004
• 2006: Rock 'n' Roll - first public performance 3 June 2006 preview at the Royal Court Theatre.

• 1964: The Dissolution of Dominic Boot
• 1964: M' is for Moon Amongst Other Things
• 1965: A Separate Peace - first performed, on British television, August 1966
• 1966: If You’re Glad I’ll be Frank
• 1967: Albert's Bridge
• 1968: Where Are They Now?, written for schools radio
• 1972: Artist Descending a Staircase
• 1982: The Dog It Was That Died
• 1991: In the Native State later expanded to become the stage play Indian Ink (1995)
• 2008: On Dover Beach

• A Separate Peace
• Teeth
• Another Moon Called Earth (containing some dialogue and situations later incorporated into Jumpers)
• Neutral Ground (a loose adaptation of Sophocles' Philoctetes)
• Professional Foul
• Squaring the Circle

• 1975: Three Men in a Boat adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome's novel for BBC Television
• 1975: The Boundary co-authored by Clive Exton, for the BBC
• 1977: Professional Foul
• 1985: Brazil co-authored with Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown, script nominated for an Academy Award
• 1987: Empire of the Sun (First draft of the screenplay)
• 1990: The Russia House Screenplay for the 1990 film of the John Le Carre Novel
• 1990: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead - won the Golden Lion
• 1998: Shakespeare in Love co-authored with Marc Norman, script won an Academy Award
• 1998: Poodle Springs Teleplay adaptation of the novel by Robert B. Parker and Raymond Chandler
• 2001: Enigma Film screenplay of the Robert Harris novel
• 2005: The Golden Compass a draft screenplay, subsequently rejected

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