Anya Bergman is the internationally bestselling author of THE WITCHES OF VARDØ and THE TAROT READER OF VERSAILLES. She has been shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2023 and been named a Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of 2023.
Anya has also published twelve novels under her real name Noelle Harrison, as well as the VALENTINA trilogy under the pen name Evie Blake, and has been translated in over fifteen different languages worldwide.
Anya possesses a doctorate in Creative Writing and is Programme Leader of Edinburgh Napier University’s Global Online Master’s in Genre Fiction.
Anya has lived in Ireland, England, Norway and Scotland.
Shortlisted for Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2023
The Witches of Vardø - bestselling novel on the Norwegian Witch Trials of 1662
The Tarot Reader of Versailles - bestselling novel on the French Revolution
Where The Ice Burns - short story on witch hunts in anthology All of the Witches
Raise Their Voices with Tenderness - non fiction essay on witch trials
PhD in Creative Writing on witch literature.
Member of Irish Writers Centre
Society of Authors Member
Associate Member of HEA of UK
Tarot Reader & expert on witch hunt history