# Dimitra Fimi
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dimitra fimi (born 2 June 1978) is an academic and writer and since 2020 the Senior Lecturer in Fantasy and Children's Literature at the University of Glasgow. She is an authority on the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and children's fantasy literature.
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
From the island of Salamis in the Greek region of Attica, the daughter of teachers Pavlos Fimis and Theodora Papaliveriou-Fimi, she attended the 1st General Lyceum of Salamis from where she graduated in 1996.
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