Nikolay Boykov (Bulgarian: ??????? ??????) is a contemporary Bulgarian writer and literary translator from Hungarian.
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.