On this day in literature
September 26
In literary history
- 1988Salman Rushdie published The Satanic Verses to immediate literary acclaim in Britain. Five months later, the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for his death, and Rushdie spent the following nine years living under a police alias.
- 2001The Council of Europe closed the European Year of Languages by proclaiming 26 September the European Day of Languages, on the reasoning that a year spent urging Europeans to learn one another's languages would not outlive the year that urged it.
Writers born on September 26
- T.S. Eliot (1888),
- Martin Heidegger (1889)