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Daniel Tammet

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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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...
IDS News, April 15, 2011
...Keep reading the IDS for the next installment of the book reviews. ‘Born on a Blue Day’ by Daniel Tammet In your mind, the number five is yellow with blue dots, short and stubby. Six is a bright fluorescent orange with black specks like pepper, and...
World News Network, April 1, 2011
...wave against a rock." For this fascinating multi-award winning documentary (BAFTA, RTS, Grammy nominated), BDH worked with Daniel Tammet in an attempt to visualise and edit his striking blend of imagery and logic, as part of in his incredible...
Wellesley Patch, March 3, 2011
...by Julie Orringer (fiction) , Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet, (nonfiction)." Brittany L. DeLorme, Children's Librarian: "Some of my favorites, classic and new, from picture books to adult: Mr....
IF Blog, October 6, 2011
...author David Toop the "core absurdity" of writing a book about the sounds of silence - those pregna...Daniel Tammet: "The immense potential in us all"...Suggesting that every time you make a pun or use a metaphor, you're actually thinking "in much the...
The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, October 3, 2011
...people. The most helpful and interesting aspect was the literature I found. Some wonderful books by Temple Grandin, Daniel Tammet, Oliver Sacks et al; and some lovely vlogs and blog sites by autistic people.Specifically, reading about autism and...
Stimeyland, August 2, 2011
...people. The most helpful and interesting aspect was the literature I found. Some wonderful books by Temple Grandin, Daniel Tammet, Oliver Sacks et al; and some lovely vlogs and blog sites by autistic people.Specifically, reading about autism and...
American Consumer News, July 23, 2011
...Brizendine (The Female Brain) will join us, followed by former Buddhist monk Alan Wallace (Contemplative Science). Finally, author Daniel Tammet (Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant). [Broadcast Date: March 7, 2008]“...
TV Is My Pacifier, July 11, 2011
...Zak had told me that they’d – some of the inspiration for the character was this guy (Daniel Tammet) who was a (synestesia was the word) – he was like a bit of a savant in England who would experience like numbers via (synestesia) and could do these...