Sture Allén

Sture Allén (31 December 1928 – 20 June 2022)^[1][2] was a Swedish professor of computational linguistics at the University of Gothenburg, who was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy between 1986 and 1999. Born in Gothenburg, he was elected to chair 3 of the Swedish Academy in 1980.^[3] He was also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters^[4] and the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters.^[5]

Sture Allén
Allén at the Gothenburg Book Fair in 2013
Born	(1928-12-31)31 December 1928 Lundby Old Church Parish, Gothenburg, Sweden
Died	20 June 2022(2022-06-20) (aged 93) Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Alma mater	University of Gothenburg
Occupation(s)	Linguist; Professor of Computational linguistics at University of Gothenburg
Spouse	Solveig Jansson ​ (m. 1954)​
Member of the Swedish Academy (Seat No. 3)
In office 20 December 1980 – 20 June 2022
Preceded by	Carl Ivar Ståhle
Succeeded by	David Håkansson
Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy
In office June 1986 – June 1999
Preceded by	Lars Gyllensten
Succeeded by	Horace Engdahl

Bibliography

• Grafematisk analys som grundval för textedering : med särskild hänsyn till Johan Ekeblads brev till brodern Claes Ekeblad 1639–1655 (1965)
• Tiotusen i topp : ordfrekvenser i tidningstext (1972)
• Carl Ivar Ståhle : inträdestal i Svenska akademien (1980)
• Svenska Akademien och Svenska Språket : tre Studier (1986)
• Orden speglar samhället (1989); co-authors: Martin Gellerstam & Sven-Göran Malmgren
• Som ett lejon med kluven svans (1993)
• Modersmålet i fäderneslandet : ett urval uppsatser under fyrtio år (1999)
• Nobelpriset i litteratur : en introduktion (2001); co-author: Kjell Espmark
• Johan Ekeblad : vår man i 1600-talet (2006)
• Svensk ordlista (2008)
• Stadgar för Svenska Akademien (2012)
• Nobelpriset i litteratur : En introduktion (2014)