Tastemaker
‘The publishing industry is a rollercoaster, it’s best just to try to ride the wave’ – Anya Bergman
The Cork-based author wrote her new novel, The Witches of Vardø, after becoming fascinated by the Finnmark Witch Trials
As a little girl, Anya Bergman always wanted to be a priest, and was horrified to learn that the role was only for men. “It made no sense to me,” she says. “It still doesn’t and it was probably at that moment that I first began to question the patriarchy.”
These questions have continued to influence Bergman’s work as an author. Her new novel, The Witches of Vardø, is a feminist retelling of history set ...
