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Sir Tom Stoppard, Order of Merit (born 1937), is one of the most famous contemporary playwrights working in English. One of his most famous plays is called Rosencratz and Guilderstern are Dead, and is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet. He also wrote the screenplay for the movie Shakespeare in Love with Marc Norman, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He also wrote the screenplays for Brazil, Anna Karenina and Empire of the Sun.

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  • Tom Stoppard at University of Texas at Austin

    Tom Stoppard, whose archive resides at the Harry Ransom Center, on The University of Texas at Austin campus in 1996. Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center.

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    Insignia of Knight Bachelor

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