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Boyka Nikolova, with a pen-name Boyka Nikolas, is a Bulgarian writer, journalist and teacher of Spanish.

Life and career
Boyka Nikolova, with a pen-name Boyka Nikolas, is a Bulgarian writer, journalist and teacher of Spanish. Boyka Nikolova was born on 13 December 1968 in Sofia. She has graduated Spanish philology at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"; in 1992. She holds a Master&#39;s degree in Literary Criticism and Spanish- American Literature. She is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Writers from 2018. The writer is completely bilingual, she is fluent in both Spanish and Bulgarian equally well and besides she speaks Italian, Russian and English. Since her youth she has been writing poetry and fiction and has won a number of literature contests for young people. At the age of 13 she published her first stories and poems in specialized publications. The writer lived and worked as a journalist, university lecturer and director of the Spanish Department at the Nicaragua People&#39;s University in Managua, Popular University of Nicaragua, 1993-1996. She is the author of the "The Spanish standard and the Nicaraguan speech", written specifically for the needs of the Popular University of Nicaragua. Boyka Nikolas is the chairman of the NGO "Spanish-Bulgarian Association for Integration and Development", Asociación Hispano-búlgara para la integración y el desarollo, Registro de Asociaciones, Comunidad de Madrid, from 2008, headquartered in Madrid and Sofia. It is dedicated to humanitarian causes, social integration of disadvantaged people and international co-operation and has implemented a number of projects under the patronage of the Madrid Regional Government, Gobierno Regional de la Comunidad de Madrid, 2009 - 2012. She also worked as an intercultural mediator and a teacher in Spanish at the Municipality of Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, "Open Library" project, 2008 - 2009, Proyecto Biblioteca abierta. Her book “The Method TLF - Thank, Love, Forgive” - 2016, written in Spanish and published in Spanish, English, Russian and Bulgarian, is very popular and the author is a frequent guest in TV and radio programs. The novel "The curse or God Has Other Plans for You", 2018, first written in Spanish, was chosen to enter the Amazon Indie 2017 contest for Spanish- language literature and was later translated and published in English, Bulgarian and Russian languages, amazon.com/author/boikanikolas Also the writer is chosen to enter the Anthology of the National Museum of Literature in Bulgaria for 2018, a project of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Boyka Nicholas deals with charity and dissemination of the Bulgarian spirituality and culture abroad : with her help and that of her husband was donated a bus with a ramp and elevator for the disabled children from "Sveti Styljan Detepozitel" home in Sliven, 2009 – 2011. Also, together with her family, she actively participated in donations to the restoration of the old church "St. George" in the village of Sopitsa, included in the donation book of the Board of Trustees. She is married to Plamen Penev, a musician and member of the Union of Artists in Spain. She has two children: a daughter - Paulina and a son – Victor.

Publishing history

 * “The Method TLF - Thank, Love, Forgive” - 2016
 * "The curse or God Has Other Plans for You", 2017 (ISBN 9788469757857)