Lolo Rico

María Dolores Rico Oliver (1935, Madrid – 20 January 2019, San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa), known professionally as Lolo Rico, was a writer, television producer, screenwriter and Spanish journalist.[1]

Lolo Rico
Born	María Dolores Rico Oliver 1935 Madrid, Spain
Died	20 January 2019 (aged 83–84) San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa), Spain
Occupation	Journalist, writer and television producer
Years active	1970s-1988

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[2]

For TVE she wrote the children programs La casa del reloj and Un globo, dos globos, tres globos in the 1970s. As a creator and director she started in 1981, with the TV show La cometa blanca. 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.[3]

Personal life

She had seven sons wit her husband Santiago Alba, but they divorced as it was not a happy marriage.[4] Among her children are the philosopher Santiago Alba Rico and writer and photographer Isabel Alba Rico. She is grandmother of the Podemos politician Nagua Alba.[5]

She died on 20 January 2019 due to cardiorespiratory arrest at 83.

References

1. Entrevista a Lolo Rico, escritora, periodista y realizadora de televisión in academiatv.es (in Spanish)
2. Premios Ondas 1977 in premiosondas.com (in Spanish)
3. 'La bola de cristal': Lolo Rico creó el programa de televisión más inclasificable de la Movida in espinof.com (in Spanish)
4. Lolo Rico, la cabeza de ‘La bola de Cristal’ in elpais.com (in Spanish)
5. Gorospe, Pedro (2019-01-20). "Fallece Lolo Rico, la mujer que quiso regalar su bola de cristal". El País.