Famous Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard to Attend Jaipur Literature Fest on Jan. 23

Tom Stoppard, one of the world's greatest playwrights, of the Oscar-winning "Shakespeare in Love" fame will visit India to speak on "adaptation" in plays and films.

Stoppard will team up with leading playwrights Girish Karnad, David Hare and Annie Proulx at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Jan. 23, 2012 to address a session, Adaptation.

Stoppard has adapted some powerful books like "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome for a BBC television series, "The Russia House" for a movie based on John Le Carre's novel in 1990 and "Poodle Springs," a novel by Robert B. Parker and Raymond Chandler for a television series.

Knighted in 1997, the 74-year-old playwright, winner of one Academy award and four Tony Award, shot to limelight with plays like "Arcadia," "The Coast of Utopia," "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour," "Professional Foul" and "Guilderstern” and "Rosencrantz are Dead" about political change, state repression, human rights and freedom.