Bergtóra Hanusardóttir (born 15 November 1946 in
Tórshavn
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,
Faroe Islands
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They are located north-northwest of Scotland, and about halfway bet ...
) 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 (1976), who is married to the well-known Faroese singer
Eivør Pálsdóttir
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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
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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
Faroese feminists
Danish women short story writers
Faroese women poets
20th-century Danish short story writers
20th-century Danish women writers