María Dolores Rico Oliver (1935,

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– 20 January 2019,

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), 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

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and

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. 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 ''La Bola de Cristal'' ( en, The Crystal Ball) was a Spanish television show that was broadcast on La Primera Cadena of Televisión Española from 1984 to 1988. The show was the brainchild of Spanish writer Dolores Rico Oliver (better known for ...

'', an innovative program in tune with the ideas of the then current ''movida madrileña''.

Personal life

She had seven children with her husband Santiago Alba, but they divorced as it was not a happy marriage.Lolo Rico, la cabeza de ‘La bola de Cristal’
in elpais.com Among her children are the philosopher Santiago Alba Rico 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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rico, Lolo 1935 births 2019 deaths Spanish television directors Spanish women journalists Women television directors