Veso Portarsky was born in 1973 in Sofia, Bulgaria and now lives in Berlin, Germany.

From 1994 to 2000, he completed a Master’s degree in Business Administration at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, worked for Burda Publishing House in Moscow and in soccer industry in Zurich before returning to Berlin in 2013.

A selection of his short stories is published by the Swiss publishing house “Diogenes”. He also appears in the German magazines Spiegel and Zitty. 

Veso Portarsky published his first book „Der größte Orgasmus auf dem Balkan“ in 2015. His second book „Der Wein, der nicht getrunken werden durfte“ was published in 2017. His last book „Prominenz“ came out in 2019.