Tom Kallene hails from a small herring-fishing island off the west coast of Sweden and came to Madrid to live in 1990. Before then, he had travelled and lived in different countries, working at a range of high-paying jobs, including ranch-hand, sawmill worker, fisherman, country singer-songwriter, and, inexplicably, sales director.
In Spain he drifted into publishing, where he edited a cigar guide and a champagne publication. Television work followed, co-hosting magazine programs on cable and national television. He has also produced and collaborated on various documentary films on Spain and Spanish (sub)culture for an international audience, including a Channel 4 documentary about bullfighting, the Madrid segment of the popular travel series “Sin Cities”, and an award-winning film about Orson Welles in Spain. He was the local producer for a book of photographs on “Disappearing Spain” by the American photographer Andy Andersen. For the past six years, he has been spreading wit and wisdom on a variety of programs on Cadena SER, Spain's number-one radio station. He is the co-author of "Onderou", a Kerouac-inspired "road book" set in the Iberian peninsula, published in November 2006 and already in its second edition. He is currently writing a book about Spain and the Spanish, as the nation trembles in anticipation. Bullfighting is a lifelong passion for Tom—the very thing that first brought him to Spain—and he still cannot recount Julio Aparicio’s unforgettable faena of May 18, 1994 without choking up with emotion. Years of following the "fiesta" around Spain have earned him many friends and contacts among matadors and other bullfight professionals, giving him access to a closed world which is difficult to penetrate, even for Spaniards. Now Tom offers his exclusive services only to clients of Madrid & Beyond…
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