Maria Gustafsson (writer)

Gustafsson was born in Boden, Sweden in 1946. She was married to Spanish director Miguel Lluch, with whom she had two children. Gustafsson died in Stockholm on 23 March 2025, at the age of 78. == Career ==

Gustafsson moved to Spain in the late 1960s to pursue an acting career. both coproduced with Children's Television Workshop. She was a screenwriter for Lápices de Colores (1986) a youth TV program showing pop/rock musicians doing extreme sports, broadcast by TVE. Later, she became Program Director at Canal 10, the first private TV channel in Spain.'''' As Manager and Executive Producer at The Missing Piece, she produced the long-running series Apaños and Viejos oficios for the different autonomous TV channels in Spain and co-produced the youth series Torch with BBC and Czechoslovak TV, and Griot, a documentary series shot entirely in Senegal and the Ivory Coast. == Writing ==

Gustafsson published five books: the trilogy about Klara Andersson, a Swedish interpreter recruited by the Military Secret Service, Den vidunderliga utsikten, Huset på Carrera 10 and Absintängeln (2013). She participated in an anthology, Liv och död i Stockholm, and co-authored a novel under a pseudonym. == Filmography ==