Sverker Olofsson
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Sverker Olofsson is a Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 TV-personality. He has led the consumer show Plus since 1987 on SVT
Sveriges Television
Sveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...

, and is one of their most well-known faces, appearing in a series of advertisements for SVT and was in 2006 a part of the Swedish election
Election
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 survey called Karavanen. He has also appeared on the consumer issues program 24 Konsument
24 Konsument
24 Konsument is a Swedish television program shown on SVT 24. The program deals with news and consumer issues and airs almost daily 20:20-20:30, but is interrupted in the summer....

. In 2009 he was awarded the Lukas Bonnier Great Journalist Award
Stora Journalistpriset
Stora Journalistpriset is an annual Swedish award, founded in 1966 by Bonnier AB, given to "promote good professional achievements in the field of journalism".The prize money is SEK 100,000 and is awarded in four categories:...

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He is the father of Linda Olofsson, who also is working for SVT.

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