Other subject matters include Adolf Hitler, world literature and the environment.

"What's extraordinary about literature, music, cinema and the arts, is that they are instruments against forgetting," he said.

And you know opponents will flash photos of her Africa travels on campaign literature when she runs for reelection.

I was very, very fortunate: I read Latin American literature like crazy in my youth.

As a teacher on the only fantasy literature masters course in the world, Prof Fimi had seen the genre "expanding and developing into more hybrid genres" and "moving away from the Tolkien model".