Finally home after a fraught begining Stoppard was born Tomáš Sträussler in 1937 in Zlín, then in Czechoslovakia. His family fled the Nazi invasion for Singapore and, after the Japanese attack there, were evacuated again, this time to India. “I was in India between the age of four and the age of eight,” said Stoppard, reflecting on the years spent in Cawnpore, Lahore, Calcutta, Bhattanagar and finally Darjeeling. These were the years he remembered for the comfort it brought him after a tumultuous start to life. “The one sense of self which I did not have as a child in...
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