Daniel Tammet

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Daniel Tammet (born 31 January 1979) is an English essayist, novelist, translator, and autistic savant.

The American Library Association Young Adult Library Services magazine named his 2006 book "Best Book for Young Adults" about his battle with Asperger syndrome and savant syndrome.

Embracing the Wide Sky, his second book, was one of France's best-selling books of 2009.

Thinking in Numbers, Hodder & Stoughton's third book, which was published in the United Kingdom on August 16, 2012, and in the United States and Canada on July 30, 2013.

In 2016, Mishenka, his first book, was published in France and Quebec.

His books have been published in more than 20 languages.

In 2012, he was elected to serve as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Personal life

Tammet was born Daniel Paul Corney, the eldest of nine children, and was raised in Barking and Dagenham, East London. He had epileptic seizures as a child and remitted after medical intervention.

He appeared in the World Memory Championships in London twice under his birth name, placing 11th in 1999 and 4th in 2000.

"It didn't match with the way he saw himself," he said in a deed poll. He adopted Tammet, which is a form of "oak trees" in Estonia.

Simon Baron-Cohen of the University of Cambridge Autism Research Centre diagnosed him with Asperger syndrome at the age of twenty-five. According to Darold Treffert, the world's top researcher in savant disease research, he is one of fewer than a hundred "prosperous savants."

Extraordinary People: The Boy with the Incredible Brain, his first documentary film, was broadcast on Channel 4 on May 23, 2005.

Neil Mitchell, a software programmer, and the two of them began a friendship in 2000. They lived in Kent. He and Mitchell owned and operated Optimnem, a computer-learning firm that developed and published language courses.

Tammet and his partner, Jérôme Tabet, a photographer who died while promoting his autobiography, now live in Paris.

Tammet is a graduate of the Open University with a Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honours in the humanities.

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Career

Optimnem, Tammet's website, was launched in 2002. The site runs language courses (currently French and Spanish) and has been an approved member of the UK National Grid for Learning since 2006.

Born on a Blue Day, international media notice and lauded him. Tammet's autobiography was "as fascinating as Benjamin Franklin's and John Stuart Mill's," according to Booklist's contributing reviewer Ray Olson, who said that his book "includes some of the most compelling prose this side of Hemingway." The book, according to Kirkus Reviews, "transcends the disability memoir genre."

Tammet appeared on several television and radio talk shows and specials on his US book tour, including 60 Minutes and David Letterman's Late Show. As BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in the United Kingdom, Born on a Blue Day was serialized in February 2007.

In 2009, his second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was published. The work, according to Allan Snyder, the University of Sydney Centre for the Mind's director, is a 'extraordinary and monumental achievement.' Savant abilities, according to Tammet, are not "supernatural" but rather "an outgrowth" of "natural, instinctive ways of thinking about numbers and words." The brains of savants can be retrained, according to him, and normal brains can be taught to develop savant skills.

Thinking in Numbers, a series of essays, was first published in 2012 and serialized as BBC Radio 4's Week in the United Kingdom.

In 2014, Les Murray's translation of a collection of poems into French was released in L'Iconoclaste, France.

In 2016, Tammet's first book, Mishenka, was published in France and Quebec.

Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing is a series of essays on language that was published in the United Kingdom, the United States, and France in 2017. Brad Leithauser wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal that "in terms of literary genres, something new and enthralling is going on inside his books" and that the author had "a keen sense of language and a broad sweep of vocabulary that would be desirable among writers."

Portraits, a bilingual first poetry collection, was published in French and English in 2018.

Fragments de paradis ("Fragments of Heaven"), a French novel written in French as a letter to a non-believing friend, was published in France and Canada in 2020.

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Awards

• American Library Association Booklist magazine "Editors' Choice Adult Books" (2007) for "Born on a Blue Day"
• The Sunday Times "Top Choice of Books" for Born on a Blue Day
• American Library Association Young Adult Library Services magazine Best Books for Young Adults" (2008)
• Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads "Selection for 2012" (2011)
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2012)
• American Library Association Booklist magazine "Editors' Choice Adult Books" (2017) for "Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing"
• New Zealand Listener The 100 Best Books of 2017 for "Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing"