Legendary playwright Sir Tom Stoppard has died.

The five-time Tony Award winner died at his home in Dorset, England, at the age of 88, said United Agents, a literary and talent agency, in an official statement.

“He will be remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, his irreverence, his generosity of spirit and his profound love of the English language. It was an honor to work with Tom and to know him,” the statement read.

The writer was born Tomáš Sträussler in 1937. When he was just 2, his Jewish family fled the German occupation of what was then known as Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic. They lived in Singapore and then India. According to the Associated Press, in 1946, his mother married a British officer, and they were able to relocate perm

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