Andrea Jeftanovic is a Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an author, sociologist and academic.

Jeftanovic was three when the September 11, 1973 Chilean military coup took place and she grew up under Augusto Pinochet

Augusto Pinochet

Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, more commonly known as Augusto Pinochet , was a Chilean army general and dictator who assumed power in a coup d'état on 11 September 1973...

's military regime. Jeftanovic has commented that the 17 years of military dictatorship that Chileans lived under had a profound effect on the development of a Chilean identity, by interrupting how Chileans perceive themselves or how the world perceives Chile.

She graduated from the Universidad Católica

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile is one of the six Catholic Universities existing in the Chilean university system and one of the two Pontifical Universities in the country, along with the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso. It is also one of Chile's oldest universities and...

 in social science and earned a doctorate

Doctorate

A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...

 in Hispanic-American literature from the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

. She has held an academic post at the University Diego Portales.

Jeftanovic is the daughter of a Serbian

Serbs

The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

 immigrant and a Jewish mother.

Works

• Escenario de Guerra (2000)
• Desafueros (2000)
• Ecos urbanos (2001)
• En Español (2001)
• Cien microcuentos chilenos (2002)
• Cuentos Eróticos (2005)
• Monólogos en fuga (2006)
• Geografía de la lengua (2007)
• No es una antología. Paisaje real de una ficción vivida (2007)

Awards (Chile)

• Juegos literarios Gabriela Mistral
  Gabriela Mistral
  Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945...
  
  
• Consejo nacional del libro
• Premio municipal

External links

• http://impreso.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2007/06/11/cultural/49773Article on Andrea Jeftanovic in El Nuevo Diario - Managua, Nicaragua
  Nicaragua
  Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...
  
  July 11, 2007]
• Selected excerpts from her book Geografía de la lengua (Geography of Language)