Sture Allén (31 December 1928 – 20 June 2022) 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. He was also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters. 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) References 1928 births 2022 deaths People from Gothenburg Members of the Swedish Academy Linguists from Sweden Academic staff of the University of Gothenburg Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Computational linguistics researchers Members of the Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg Members of Academia Europaea Members of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters