Nikolay Boykov

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Nikolay Boykov (Bulgarian: Николай Бойков) is a Bulgarian writer and translator who lives in Hungary. He was born on 26 January 1968 in Vidin, Bulgaria. After finishing the Mathematical High School in Vidin in 1985, he began studying computer science at Sofia University. He later studied Hungarian philology at the University of Debrecen, graduating in 1994. From 1998 to 2005, he taught Hungarian language and literature at Sofia University. He served as editor and translator of Proses, a collection by Miklós Mészöly, published in Bulgarian in 2003. He has translated works by many Hungarian authors, including András Gerevich, Nándor Gion, Gábor Németh, László Garaczi, László Villányi, Attila Bartis, Pál Békés, János Lackfi, János Pilinszky, László Darvasi, Tamás Jónás, György Petri, Lőrinc Szabó, Ottó Kiss, Attila Hazai, and others.