Nikolay Boykov (Bulgarian: Николай Бойков) is a contemporary Bulgarian writer and literary translator from Hungary.

In 1985, he graduated the Mathematical High School in Vidin and was accepted to study computer science in Sofia University.

From 1998 to 2005 he taught Hungarian language and literature in Sofia University.

Boykov was editor and translator of the selection "Proses" by Miklós Mészöly (published in Bulgarian by "SONM" in 2003).

He has also translated works by 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.