On this day in literature
October 9
In literary history
- 1906Léopold Sédar Senghor was born at Joal in French West Africa. He wrote the poems that founded négritude, became the first president of Senegal, was the first African head of state to hand over power of his own accord, and the first African to sit in the Académie française.
Writers born on October 9
- Ivo Andrić (1892),
- Mário de Andrade (1893),
- Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906)