About the author

Bergtóra Hanusardóttir (born 15 November 1946 in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands) is a Faroese writer and orthodontist.

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 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 in 1995 and in New York City 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.

Stækket flugt

Historisk roman om et usædvanligt kvindeliv på Færøerne i første del af 1900-tallet. Hovedpersonen Sunnivá er som en fugl med stækkede vinger. Fra starten er hendes liv anderledes end andres, fordi hun er hofteskadet og vralter som en and. Alligevel møder hun kærligheden. Manden er ikke den bedste, hun kunne have ønsket sig, og hun får ikke frihed til at udfolde sig som den kunstner, hun gerne vil være. Men hun er stærk og nægter at lade sig kue.

Med sine smukke naturskildringer og den særlige tone, som går gennem bogen, indfanger Bergtóra Hanusardóttir den færøske livsrytme og går tæt på et sind, der bøjer sig under skæbnen for senere at rejse sig igen.
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Edition1
Printed pages208
Publish date12 Nov 2018
Published byAmanda Books
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ISBN print9788799559299