Ilija Trojanow (Bulgarian: Илия Троянов, also transliterated as Ilya Troyanov; born 23 August 1965 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian–German writer, translator and publisher.

He has lived in Cape Town, returned to Germany (Mainz), and then to Austria, where he currently resides in Vienna.

After that appeared the science fiction novel "Autopol", created on the Internet as a "novel in progress," "Hundezeiten", a travel account of a visit to his Bulgarian homeland, and books dealing with his experiences in India.

His reportage "Zu den heiligen Quellen des Islam" describes a pilgrimage to Mecca.

[1] In 2014, Trojanow participated in the writer in residence programme of the one world foundation in Sri Lanka.