Lolo Rico


María Dolores Rico Oliver, known professionally as Lolo Rico, was a writer, television producer, screenwriter and Spanish journalist.

Career

She began her career writing children's stories and working on Radio Nacional de España and Televisión Española. For Radio Nacional she directed and wrote in the 70s the children's show Dola, Dola, tira la bola, for which she created the character of Dola and for which she received an Ondas prize in 1977
For TVE she wrote the children programs ' and ' in the 1970s. As a creator and director she started in 1981, with the TV show . In 1984, for Saturday's mornings, she created the famous TV show La bola de cristal, an innovative program in tune with the ideas of the then current movida madrileña.

Personal life

She had seven sons wit her husband Santiago Alba, but they divorced as it was not a happy marriage. Among her children are the philosopher and writer and photographer. She is grandmother of the Podemos politician Nagua Alba.
She died on 20 January 2019 due to cardiorespiratory arrest at 83.