Nikolay Boykov ( bg, Николай Бойков) is a contemporary Bulgarian writer and literary translator from Hungary.
He was born on 26 January 1968 in Vidin, Bulgaria. In 1985, he graduated the Mathematical High School in Vidin and was accepted to study computer science in Sofia University. Later, after studying polytechnics for two semesters in Hungary, he moved to study Hungarian philology in the University of Debrecen, which he graduated in 1994.
From 1998 to 2005 he taught Hungarian language and literature in Sofia University.
Books
* ''Metaphysics'' (Free Poetic Society, Sofia, 2000)
* ''Poems With Biography'' (Janet 45, Plovdiv, 2003)
* ''Declared in Love'' (handmade, Sofia, 2005)
* ''Letters To Petar'' (Janet 45, Plovdiv, 2006)
* ''The Book of Life'' (Ciela, Sofia, 2010)
Selected translations
* Péter Esterházy, "The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn" (''Hahn-Hahn grófnő pillantása'') (published in Bulgarian by "SONM" in 2000)
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