diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
index 404d975721d8..32530d3ea3cd 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ mediator_lua,,,,,,
 middleclass,,,,,,
 mpack,,,,,,
 moonscript,https://github.com/leafo/moonscript.git,dev-1,,,,arobyn
+nlua,,,,,,teto
 nui.nvim,,,,,,mrcjkb
 nvim-cmp,https://github.com/hrsh7th/nvim-cmp,,,,,
 penlight,https://github.com/lunarmodules/Penlight.git,,,,,alerque
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index 71ac6c68abc4..cac6c55e9354 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -2724,6 +2724,29 @@ buildLuarocksPackage {
   };
 }) {};
 
+nlua = callPackage({ buildLuarocksPackage, fetchurl, fetchzip, lua, luaOlder }:
+buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "nlua";
+  version = "0.1.0-1";
+  knownRockspec = (fetchurl {
+    url    = "mirror://luarocks/nlua-0.1.0-1.rockspec";
+    sha256 = "14ynhy85m2prawym1ap1kplkbicafbczpggzgdnji00frwqa1zvv";
+  }).outPath;
+  src = fetchzip {
+    url    = "https://github.com/mfussenegger/nlua/archive/v0.1.0.zip";
+    sha256 = "1x3pbv5ngbk0sjgwfpjsv3x49wzq4x29d9rm0hgyyb2g2mwag3jc";
+  };
+
+  disabled = (luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ lua ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/mfussenegger/nlua";
+    description = "Neovim as Lua interpreter";
+    license.fullName = "GPL-3.0";
+  };
+}) {};
+
 nui-nvim = callPackage({ buildLuarocksPackage, fetchgit, fetchurl }:
 buildLuarocksPackage {
   pname = "nui.nvim";