The Final Curtain 💜 for Sir Tom Stoppard

Tributes are flooding in from the literary world and beyond for the celebrated playwright, screenwriter, and former journalist, Sir Tom Stoppard. ( 1937~2025)

Critically compared to William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw, his writing for film, stage, radio, and television is legendary. Covering subjects including human rights, censorship, political freedom, and philosophical observations of human society.

Of him, Sir Lawrence Olivier once said –

” ….is a great glamouriser of thought”

About being a writer, Sir Tom said –

“You’re a writer. You write because you’re a writer. Even when you write about something, you have to think up something to write about just so you can keep writing”