Mats Malm

Mats Ulrik Malm
Born (1964-05-10) 10 May 1964
Occupationstranslator, literary historian, editor
SpouseGunilla Hermansson
Member of the Swedish Academy
(Seat No. 11)
Assumed office
20 December 2018
Preceded byKlas Östergren
Permanent Secretary
of the Swedish Academy
In office
June 2019 – June 2016
Preceded byAnders Olsson
Succeeded byIngrid Carlberg
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Mats Ulrik Malm (born 10 May 1964) is a Swedish literary writer and translator. On 18 October 2018, Malm was elected a member of the Swedish Academy, on 26 April 2019 he was elected the new Permanent Secretary and Speaker of the Swedish Academy.

Mats Malm is a university professor of literary science at the University of Gothenburg. He has a PhD in Gothicism. As a translator, he has published Icelandic Sagas. He is working on digitizing Swedish literature as director of the Swedish Literature Bank. Since 2012, Malm has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. On 18 October 2018, Malm was elected member of the Swedish Academy, where he succeeded Klas Östergren in Chair No. 11. On 20 December 2025, Malm announced he would step down from his office as Permanent Secretary and will be succeeded by Ingrid Carlberg.