The lexicographer Sue Atkins died on 3 September 2021 at the age of 90. She was professionally associated with leading publishers such as Collins-Harper and Oxford University Press, and was a specialist in computational lexicography, especially in the creation of bilingual dictionaries based on corpora. She edited the Collins-Robert English-French Dictionary (1978) and was the driving force behind the British National Corpus project. She was one of the founders of EURALEX and was its president from 1992 to 1994. She worked closely with Michael Rundell, Adam Kilgarrif (1960-2015) and Charles J. Fillmore (1929-2014) on lexicography teaching initiatives and projects.

She authored books such as Using Dictionaries: Studies of Dictionary Use by Language Learners and Translators (1998); The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography (2008) with Michael Rundell; and Computational Approaches to the Lexicon (1994), with Antonio Zampolli.

Sue Atkins visited the IULA in 2002, when she participated as a speaker at the I International Symposium on Lexicography, and in 2008, when the XIII EURALEX International Congress was held at the UPF. Her contributions can be found in the proceedings of these events (Publicaciones del IULA, Activities Seires, issues 15 and 20).

We invite you to watch a conversation on lexicography between Sue Atkins and Michael Rundell at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZck6jUP-Hw.