Kari Sørby (28 October 1938 – 28 September 1987) was a Norwegian television personality. She was born in

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a city and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality is the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 116,000 as of January 2020, following th ...

, and studied at the

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. She was hired in the

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in 1970 and was promoted to program secretary in 1971. Her most profiled job on the television screen was as the news anchor in ''

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''. In 1981 she was awarded the ''

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'' readers' TV personality of the year award. In 1983 she published a memoir, ''På min måte. Fra et nær- og fjernsynt liv''.

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1938 births 1987 deaths People from Kristiansand Norwegian television news anchors NRK people 20th-century Norwegian writers {{Norway-tv-bio-stub