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Daniel Tammet is a writer, linguist and educator. A 2007 poll of 4,000 Britons named him as one of the world's "100 living geniuses." His website company, Optimnem, has provided foreign language instruction to thousands around the globe and his last book, the New York Times bestseller Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant, has been translated into 18 languages. He lives in Avignon, in the south of France.

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Psychology Today, May 11, 2012
...didn’t begin to suspect differently, until I started reading the work of other autistic people, such as Daniel Tammet’s . In them, I read that many people on the autism spectrum also have a condition call synesthesia, in which the senses cross over...
Spectator, February 24, 2012
...still. One savant, however, does not fit the stereotype. Foer’s book is at its sharpest when describing Daniel Tammet, the savant on whom the documentary Brainman was based. Tammet is very articulate and personable, which arouses suspicion. Is Tammet,...
CNET.co.uk, February 14, 2012
...go, JRR Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings is £12.99 on both Kobo and Kindle and Daniel Tammet's Born on a Blue Day (an excellent insight into high-functioning autism) is £4.99 on both. Professor Robert Winston's Human Instinct is slightly cheaper for...
AnnArbor.com, October 27, 2011
...chosen as the subject for the 2012 edition of Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads. The book is the autobiography of Daniel Tammet , an autistic savant. Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads is a program that encourages everyone in the community to read the same book. A...
Creswell Chronicle, June 27, 2011
...a gift for numbers by studying the colors, patterns and relationship between numbers. It is a memoir by Daniel Tammet called, "Born on a Blue Day." Also among the books stacked haphazardly in the bag was a biography of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, the...
Jewish News Weekly, May 20, 2011
...Tabby Block, 13, recently read “Born on a Blue Day,” the autobiography of autistic savant Daniel Tammet. Jacob Ganz, 14, likes sports books and political books. When these avid readers — both residents of San Francisco — turned to the Internet to...
AllVoices, May 19, 2011
...patricia corrigan, correspondent Tabby Block, 13, recently read Born on a Blue Day, the autobiography of autistic savant Daniel Tammet...When these avid readers both residents of San Francisco turned to the Internet to search for meaningful...
Spectator, February 24, 2012
...still. One savant, however, does not fit the stereotype. Foer’s book is at its sharpest when describing Daniel Tammet, the savant on whom the documentary Brainman was based. Tammet is very articulate and personable, which arouses suspicion. Is Tammet,...
Daily Express, February 19, 2012
...immersion in the world of memory, Joshua met people like Pridmore, savants Kim Peek (aka Rain man) and Daniel Tammet, renowned for their incredible factual knowledge. However, the man who made the most impact was an 84-year-old retired lab technician...
Scottish Sunday Express, February 19, 2012
...immersion in the world of memory, Joshua met people like Pridmore, savants Kim Peek (aka Rain man) and Daniel Tammet, renowned for their incredible factual knowledge. However, the man who made the most impact was an 84-year-old retired lab technician...
Scottish Daily Express, February 19, 2012
...immersion in the world of memory, Joshua met people like Pridmore, savants Kim Peek (aka Rain man) and Daniel Tammet, renowned for their incredible factual knowledge. However, the man who made the most impact was an 84-year-old retired lab technician...
Atlantic Monthly, February 17, 2012
...At its heart, Urville offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a savant, the artistic equivalent of Daniel Tammet's linguistic and mathematical prowess . This post also appears on Brain Pickings , an  Atlantic  partner site...
CNET.co.uk, February 14, 2012
...go, JRR Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings is £12.99 on both Kobo and Kindle and Daniel Tammet's Born on a Blue Day (an excellent insight into high-functioning autism) is £4.99 on both. Professor Robert Winston's Human Instinct is slightly cheaper for...
MORE, February 13, 2012
...re a vessel of full-blown congestive fury and malaise." (amazon.com) 'Born on a Blue Day' by Daniel Tammet Tammet, an autistic savant, shares his incredible mental powers—he sees numbers as shapes, colors and textures; he can speak new languages...