Xhevahir Spahiu (born 1 March 1945 in Malind, Skrapar District, Albania) is an Albanian poet.

Spahiu studied at the University of Tirana, Faculty of Philology and History, Literature-Language Branch.

Since 1968, he has worked as a journalist for the newspaper Zëri i Popullit (Voice of the People), a magazine editor for Nëntori, and a librettist and teacher at the Opera and Ballet Theater in Tirana.

Enver Hoxha would have seen in a few lines a reference to a sentence by Jean-Paul Sartre, author whose reading was outlawed by the regime .

The collection Zgjimi i thellësive (Awakening depths) was meanwhile released in 1979, then withdrawn from sale because, afterwards, it was deemed "unhealthy".