Bergtóra Hanusardóttir (born 15 November 1946 in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands) is a Faroese writer and orthodontist.
[1] 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.
[2] Bergtóra has had two children with Bogi Hansen: composer Tróndur Bogason[3] (1976), who is married to the well-known Faroese singer Eivør Pálsdóttir[4] and Ragnheiður Bogadóttir (1979).
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 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.