Nikolay Kirilov graduated in Bulgarian philology at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski ”in 1998. Since 2009 he has been an assistant at the Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in the field of New and Contemporary Bulgarian Literature. In 2011 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the influence of absurdism on contemporary Bulgarian drama. He is the author of critical and theoretical publications in the field of contemporary Bulgarian literature, theory and history of drama in scientific and encyclopedic publications.