Bergtóra Hanusardóttir (born 15 November 1946 in
Tórshavn
Tórshavn (; ; Danish language, Danish: ''Thorshavn''), usually locally referred to as simply Havn, is the capital and largest city of the Faroe Islands. It is located in the southern part on the east coast of Streymoy. To the northwest of th ...
,
Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands ( ) (alt. the Faroes) are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. Located between Iceland, Norway, and the United Kingdom, the islands have a populat ...
) is a Faroese writer and orthodontist.
Biography
She is the daughter of Mia Trónd from Tórshavn and Hanus D. Jensen from the small island
Skúvoy, and is the eldest of four sisters, the others being Rannvá, Svanna and Marjun. Her sister Marjun Hanusardóttir is the Permanent Secretary (director) of the Prime Minister's Office. Bergtóra has had two children with Bogi Hansen: composer
Tróndur Bogason
Tróndur Bogason (born 5 April 1976 as Tróndur Bogason Hansen) is a Faroese composer and musician. He composes classical works, but he also arranges music for pop, rock and folk artists. He is married to the Faroese singer Eivør Pálsdóttir w ...
(1976), who is married to the well-known Faroese singer
Eivør Pálsdóttir and Ragnheiður Bogadóttir (1979).
As a young woman Bergtóra moved to Copenhagen in order to study dentistry. On finishing her studies in 1970, she trained as an orthodontist, finishing in 1975. She moved back to the Faroe Islands, where she was socially active in a number of ways, including sport (handball), working for equal rights for women, protesting against the EEC, and as a board member of the Women's Organization of Tórshavn (Kvinnufelagið í Havn). She has represented the Faroe Islands at international women's conferences around the world, i.e. in
Beijing
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in 1995 and in
New York City
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in 2000. She has her own clinic in Tórshavn.
She wrote pieces of various kinds for the women's magazine Kvinnutíðindi, where she was editor for some years, and published her first novel ''Skert flog'' in 1990. To date she has published three novels, the third one, ''Burtur'', being published in 1990. It is about young Faroese people studying in Denmark.
Selected works
Novels
* ''Skert flog'', 1990
* ''Suðar dýpið reyða'', 1999
* ''Burtur'', 2006
Short stories
* ''Loynigongir'', collection of short stories, Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins, 108 pages, 1993
* ''Eisini kærleiki'', published in Frostrósan, 1987
* ''Katrin'', published in Frostrósan, 1987
* ''Várvindar'', published in Kvinnutíðindi, 1988
* ''Bonsai'', 2000
Plays
* ''Náttúra menniskjunar'', 1984
* ''Heygbúgvin'', 1991
Poems
* ''Songartíð'', 2000
Published in Kvinnutíðindi
* ''Langomma'', Kvinnutíðindi nr 1, 1984
* ''Tilkomin kvinna'', Kvinnutíðindi nr 1, 1984
* ''Einsamøll mamma'', Kvinnutíðindi nr 1, 1984
* ''Kvinna í starvi'', Kvinnutíðindi nr 1, 1984
* ''Ung kvinna og Smágenta'', Kvinnutíðindi nr 1, 1984
* Prose poems in the play ''Kvinnur'', published in Kvinnutíðindi nr.1, 1984
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hanusardottir, Bergtora
Faroese women writers
Faroese women novelists
1946 births
Living people
Faroese short story writers
People from Tórshavn
20th-century Faroese poets
Faroese-language poets
Women dentists
Orthodontists
Faroese feminists
Danish women short story writers
Faroese women poets
20th-century Danish short story writers
20th-century Danish women writers