Andrea Jeftanovic

Andrea Jeftanovic (born October 15, 1970, in Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean author, sociologist and academic.

Jeftanovic was three when the September 11, 1973 Chilean military coup took place.

She graduated from the Universidad Católica in social science and earned a doctorate in Hispanic-American literature from the University of California, Berkeley.

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

Jeftanovic is the daughter of a Serbian father and a mother of Bulgarian-Jewish descent.

Chilean writer Andrea Jeftanovic at the presentation of Macarena Areco's book Cartography of the recent Chilean novel: realisms, experimentalisms, hybridizations and sub-genres , held at the Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center on April 2, 2015