Daniel Tammet

Daniel Tammet is the subject of the award-winning television documentary, The Boy with the Incredible Brain , as well as a BBC Radio 4 documentary, Two Poets (with Les Murray) and the Kate Bush song, Pi . He is the author of nine books, including the memoir Born on a Blue Day , an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; two collections of essays, Thinking in Numbers , a New Yorker recommendation, and Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing , a Booklist Editors' Choice and Listener Magazine Book of the...See more

Daniel Tammet is the subject of the award-winning television documentary, The Boy with the Incredible Brain , as well as a BBC Radio 4 documentary, Two Poets (with Les Murray) and the Kate Bush song, Pi . He is the author of nine books, including the memoir Born on a Blue Day , an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; two collections of essays, Thinking in Numbers , a New Yorker recommendation, and Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing , a Booklist Editors' Choice and Listener Magazine Book of the Year; a bilingual poetry collection in English and French, Portraits, and a novel written in French, Mishenka . His writing has appeared in Esquire , The Times Literary Supplement , The Guardian , Aeon and Quadrant , and his books have been translated into thirty languages. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2012, and awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, The Open University, in 2023. Daniel Tammet lives in Paris. See less