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Aristotle Spiro was born in 1963 in Finiq, Sarandë, Albania. He is a linguist, professor, poet and translator.

Aristotle Spiro (Albanian: Aristotel Spiro, Greek Αριστοτέλης Σπύρου) graduated in 1986 at Aleksandër Xhuvani Higher Pedagogical Institute of Elbasan, Albania, at the Department of Linguistics and Albanian literature. In the period 1986-1992 he worked as a professor at the same school. At the same time he attended a postgraduate course at the University of Tirana (1987-1989).

In the years 1992-2008 he lived mainly in Athens. As a scholar of Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, he studied and prepared the PhD thesis on "The Greek Dialect of Delvina and Saranda region", which he successfully defended at the Department of Linguistics, School of Philosophy, University of Athens (2000). He has translated Greek literature into Albanian. During the period 2008-2016 he has worked as a professor of Greek language at the University of Tirana, Albania. A. Spiro is the founder of the Albanian-Greek Association of Philology (1997), and publisher and editor-in-chief of Albanohellenica, an international journal of philological Albanian-Greek studies.

Published works

 * "Në festën erotike" - poems (in Albanian), Athens: Alcaeus, 2001
 * Αλβανική και Νεοελληνική: Προβλήματα των αλβανοφώνων κατά την εκμάθηση της ελληνικής γλώσσας” (Albanian and Modern Greek: Problems of Albanian native speakers in the acquisition of Modern Greek) (in Greek). Athens: University of Athens, 2003
 * Tο ελληνικό γλωσσικό ιδίωμα της περιοχής Δελβίνου και Αγίων Σαράντα (The Greek Dialect of Delvina and Saranda region) (in Greek) Athens: University of Athens - Saripoleion Foundation, 2008
 * "Дневник от каменната епоха" ("A diary of the Stone Era") (translated in Bulgarian by Tonka Georgieva) poems, Athens: Alcaeus, 2008
 * "Shqip" Sprova gjuhësore dhe artikuj (In Albanian: Linguistics essays and articles). Athens: Alcaeus, 2010.
 * (ed.) "Decodifications and Recodifications: Aspects of Linguistic Description and Intercultural Communication. Albanohellenica Linguistic Series.". Athens: Albanian-Greek Association of Philology, 2012
 * "Albanian-Greek Routes" Studies and articles on language, culture and translation, Tirana: Onufri, 2016.
 * "The Quest for Goodness" (poems in English translated by Arben Latifi), Cyberwit.net, 2019.

Literary translations

 * Koutsochera, Leta. Flowing landscapes, poems (Original title: Τοπία ρέοντα). Elbasan: Onufri, 1994.
 * Λίγα τραγούδια για την τάξη (Some songs for the classroom) (bilingual edition in Greek and Albanian for the Albanian pupils in Greece). Athens: University of Athens, 1998.
 * Fotiadou - Balafouti, Yota. Me hënë të plotë ti u ngjize (Original title: Your inception on a full moon). Athens: Alcaeus, 2002.
 * Cavafy, Costantin, Vepra poetike (Original title: Άπαντα τα Ποιητικά), Tirana: Pegi, 2010 (Translated, prefaced, and notated critically and with afterword by Aristotle Spiro)
 * Euripides, Electra (Original title: Ηλέκτρα), Tirana: Onufri, 2014 (Translated and prefaced by Aristotle Spiro). ISBN 978-9928-164-98-8.