Nacarid Portal

Nacarid Portal was born in Caracas and studied social communication and arts at the Universidad Santa María,^[3] and later at the Escuela Superior de Artes Escénicas Juana Sujo.^[2][4] At the age of 20, she wrote her first book, La vida entre mis dedos. Her book Amor a cuatro estaciones was the best-selling juvenile book in 2016 and 2017 in Venezuela,^[5] and was proposed for a film adaptation.^[6][7] In 2018 she published Quinientas veces tu nombre,^[8] which she included as part of the Renacer book saga.^[9] She would later publish Mientras te olvido.^[10]

At the age of 21, she founded,^[10] along with her mother, the humanitarian organization Tierra Nueva.^[2]

She is also the official ambassador of Acción Poética in Caracas, a literary movement that promotes poetry in urban environments.^[4]

In 2017, she founded the publishing house Déja Vu, under which she publishes herself and within which she holds the position of director. It is oriented to juvenile literature.^[2]

Portal is openly lesbian.^[11] In 2023, she received media coverage for having obtained, through a legal process, the naming of her two children after both of her mothers.^[12]