# Daniel Tammet ## Pages - [Born on a Blue Day](https://danieltammet.net/born-on-a-blue-day/): RELEASED July 13, 2006 FORMAT(S) Hardcover / paperback / audio / Kindle PUBLISHER Hodder Booklist Editors’ Choice (Biography), 2007 American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults, 2008 Although Tammet is only 27, his autobiography is as fascinating as Benjamin Franklin’s and John Stuart Mill’s, both of which are, like his, about the growth of a mind. Not that Tammet is a scientist-statesman or philosopher. He is an autistic savant who can perform hefty arithmetical calculations at lightning speed and acquire speaking competency in a previously unknown language in mere days. More socially competent and independent than the autistic savant […] - [Thinking in Numbers](https://danieltammet.net/thinking-in-numbers/): RELEASED August 16, 2012 FORMAT(S) Hardcover / paperback / audio / Kindle PUBLISHER Hodder ‘Always entertaining, Daniel Tammet never loses his respect for the mystery of the universe of number.’ J. M. Coetzee This is the book that Daniel Tammet, bestselling author and mathematical savant, was born to write. In Tammet’s world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes and everyday examples, Tammet allows us to share his unique insights and delight in the way numbers, fractions and equations underpin all our lives. Inspired by the complexity of snowflakes, Anne Boleyn’s eleventh finger or his […] - [Embracing the Wide Sky](https://danieltammet.net/embracing-the-wide-sky/): RELEASED January 22, 2009 FORMAT(S) Hardcover / paperback / audio / Kindle PUBLISHER Hodder (UK) Simon and Schuster (US) Daniel Tammet explains that the differences between savant and non-savant minds have been exaggerated; his astonishing capacities in memory, math and language are neither due to a cerebral supercomputer nor any genetic quirk, but are rather the results of a highly rich and complex associative form of thinking and imagination. Autistic thought, he argues, is an extreme variation of a kind that we all do, from daydreaming to the use of puns and metaphors. Embracing the Wide Sky combines meticulous scientific […] - [Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing](https://danieltammet.net/every-word-is-a-bird-we-teach-to-sing/): RELEASED August 24, 2017 FORMAT(S) Hardcover / paperback / audio / Kindle PUBLISHER Hachette Booklist editors’ choice 2017 (Arts and Literature) New Zealand Listener 100 Best Books of 2017 Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks “talk” to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will A.I. researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing collection of essays, Daniel Tammet answers these and many other questions about the intricacy and profound power of language. In Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing, Tammet goes back in time to London to explore the numeric language of his autistic childhood; in Iceland, he […] - [C'est une chose sérieuse que d'être parmi les hommes](https://danieltammet.net/cest-une-chose-serieuse-que-detre-parmi-les-hommes/): DATE DE SORTIE 29 septembre 2014 FORMAT(S) Broché EDITEUR L’Iconoclaste Une œuvre puissante pressentie chaque année pour le prix Nobel de littérature, traduite pour la première fois en France. Daniel Tammet présente quarante des plus beaux poèmes de Les Murray, qu’il commente et traduit en français. On y découvre un virtuose du langage, un poète de la nature fasciné par la puissance du monde qui l’entoure, un humaniste qui fait l’éloge de la vie simple et pourfend les fausses valeurs de la vie contemporaine. Né en 1938, issu d’une famille de fermiers pauvres, Murray défend les valeurs de l’Australie rurale […] - [Mishenka](https://danieltammet.net/mishenka/): DATE DE SORTIE 23 mars 2016 FORMAT(S) Broché / poche / Kindle EDITEUR Les Arènes Inspiré d’une histoire vraie, ce roman met en scène deux hommes, deux visions de la vie, la lutte entre la pensée et les émotions, l’art et la science, à un moment clé de l’histoire de l’URSS. Moscou, mars 1960. En Union soviétique, les échecs sont un sport national et le champion du monde, Maxim Koroguine, est le héros du régime. Avec lui, le jeu d’échecs est devenu une science de la logique. Surgit alors un jeune prodige de 23 ans, Mikhail Gelb, surnommé Mishenka, romantique et imprévisible. Pour Mishenka, les échecs sont un langage, […] - [Portraits](https://danieltammet.net/portraits/): DATE DE SORTIE / RELEASED November 16, 2018 FORMAT(S) DISPONIBLE(S) / AVAILABLE FORMAT(S) : Broché / hardcover EDITEUR / PUBLISHER Blancs Volants Daniel Tammet Autrefois enfant autiste dont la langue maternelle était les nombres, Daniel Tammet est aujourd’hui l’auteur d’une œuvre foisonnante, traduite dans le monde entier. Portraits est son premier recueil de poésie.  Formerly an autistic child whose mother tongue was numbers, Daniel Tammet is the author of a large and much-translated body of work, including memoirs, essays, literary reportage and a nove!. Portraits is his first collection of poetry. Jérôme Tabet La tête dans les images depuis l’enfance, Jérôme Tabet […] - [How to be 'Normal'](https://danieltammet.net/how-to-be-normal/): RELEASED September 10, 2020 AVAILABLE FORMAT(S) Hardcover / Kindle PUBLISHER Quercus Have you ever wondered how neurotypicals – so called ‘normal’ people – come across to those who are on the autistic spectrum?  Daniel Tammet is an essayist, poet, novelist and translator. In 2004, he was diagnosed with high-functioning autistic savant syndrome. In this eye-opening and fascinating book, he takes readers on a tour around nightclubs, ponders the significance of tattoos, delves into anti-age creams and puzzles over playing the lottery, all from the perspective of someone who approaches everything in life from a unique angle. After all, this is […] - [Fragments de paradis](https://danieltammet.net/fragments-de-paradis/): DATE DE SORTIE 15 janvier 2020 FORMAT(S) Broché / Poche / Kindle EDITEUR Les Arènes Prix de la liberté intérieure, finaliste, 2020 Un livre d’émerveillement – Jean Claude Ameisen Élevé dans un milieu non croyant, Daniel Tammet raconte sa conversion au christianisme à l’âge adulte. Quels épisodes de l’enfance, quelles rencontres, quels échanges ont été déterminants ? Peut-on réconcilier la foi et la raison? Comment partager une expérience aussi indicible ? Récit lumineux sur la quête de sens, ce livre est sans doute le plus intime de l’auteur et touchera les croyants comme les non-croyants. - [Nine Minds](https://danieltammet.net/nine-minds/): RELEASED July 11, 2024 AVAILABLE FORMAT(S) Hardcover / Paperback / Audio / Kindle PUBLISHER Profile Books / Wellcome Collection Sydney Morning Herald Best Reads of 2024 Waterstones Best Popular Science Books of 2024 A Japanese researcher in psychology sets out to measure loneliness while drawing on her own experience of autism. A quirky boy growing up in 1950s Ottawa sows the seeds of his future Hollywood stardom. In the US, a non-verbal man explores body language, gesture by eloquent gesture, in his mother’s yoga classes.  Nine Minds delves into the extraordinary lives of nine neurodivergent men and women from around the […] - [Readings and lectures](https://danieltammet.net/readings-and-lectures/): 2025 – Futurotheca Festival, Budapest 2025 – Aix Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence (in French) 2024 – Edinburgh International Book Festival 2024 – Off the Shelf Book Festival, Sheffield 2024 – Wigtown Book Festival 2024 – University of Cambridge 2024 – Queen Mary University of London 2024 – University of Birmingham 2024 – Open University, Milton Keynes 2024 – Deloitte University, Paris (in French) 2024 – International Mathematical Olympiad, Bath 2024 – MAIF, Pau and Dijon (in French) 2021 – Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cologny, Switzerland (in French) 2019 – Autismus Deutsche Schweiz, Zürich 2019 – Ideas Abu Dhabi 2019 – Partages du […] - [Bibliography](https://danieltammet.net/bibliography/) - [Awards and recognition](https://danieltammet.net/awards-and-recognition/): 2024 – Sydney Morning Herald Best Reads of 2024 – Nine Minds  2024 – Waterstones Best Popular Science Books of 2024 – Nine Minds 2023 – Honorary doctorate (Open University)  2020 – Le Monde bestseller – Fragments de paradis 2020 – Prix de la liberté intérieure, finalist – Fragments de paradis 2017 – New Zealand Listener 100 Best Books of 2017 – Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing  2017 – Booklist Editors’ Choice (Arts and Literature) for Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing 2016 – Prix Tangente des lycéens, finalist – Thinking in Numbers 2013 – Der Spiegel […] - [Reviews](https://danieltammet.net/reviews/): ‘It is possible that because Tammet experiences the world so differently, he conveys difference so powerfully in others. Here, he has taken the lives of nine extraordinary autistic men and women and given us the kind of insight into neurodivergence that I haven’t read since Oliver Sacks’s An Anthropologist on Mars‘ (Judith Newman, Washington Post, 05/04/2025) ‘Lyrically drawn portraits, detailed and vivid in depicting the circumstances of each life. A skilled writer, Tammet adopts the perspective of his subjects, looking out at their worlds from inside, imagining their thoughts and embodying their joy, their fear, their moments of relief’ (John Donvan, […] - [Contact](https://danieltammet.net/contact/): CONTACT PUBLICITY UK media Kate McQuaid Senior Publicist, Profile Books kate.mcquaid@profilebooks.com US media Jennifer Hergenroeder Associate Publisher, The Experiment jennifer@theexperimentpublishing.com SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS JLA Speaker Bureau https://www.jla.co.uk/artist/daniel-tammet LITERARY RIGHTS, FOREIGN RIGHTS, PERMISSIONS Andrew Lownie Literary Agency lownie@globalnet.co.uk Follow Me​ - [Bio](https://danieltammet.net/bio/) - [Books](https://danieltammet.net/books/): Click on each book for more information - [Daniel Tammet](https://danieltammet.net/): AS FEATURED ON​ Daniel Tammet Writer and Speaker.​ [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)