Lulzim Aliu was born in 1977 in Kichevo. He completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown. In 1999, he graduated from the "Blaže Koneski" Faculty of Philology in Skopje, majoring in Albanian Language and Literature. In 2006, he earned his Master`s degree in Philological Sciences with a thesis on "The Language in Albanian Folk Songs from the Kichevo Region." In 2011, at the same faculty, he defended his doctoral dissertation on "The Grammatical Categories of the Verb in Ismail Kadare`s Novels Translated from Albanian into Macedonian," earning a Ph.D. in Philological Sciences.

 

From 2022 to 2023, he served as the Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of North Macedonia. From 2023 to 2024, he was the Vice Dean for Education at the "St. Clement of Ohrid" Faculty of Pedagogy at the "Ss. Cyril and Methodius" University in Skopje.

 

Since 2009, he has been working and teaching at the "St. Clement of Ohrid" Faculty of Pedagogy at the "Ss. Cyril and Methodius" University in Skopje. Additionally, he is engaged at the University of Tetovo, where he teaches the Albanian Language course. In 2020, he was promoted to Full Professor at the "St. Clement of Ohrid" Faculty of Pedagogy, teaching courses such as Methods of Teaching Albanian, Children`s Literature, Comparative/Creative Literature, and Literary Workshop for students in primary and preschool education in the Albanian language.

 

In 2020, he was appointed Head of the Institute for Preschool Education at the "St. Clement of Ohrid" Faculty of Pedagogy in Skopje. From 2014 to 2018, he served as the Head of the Second Cycle of Studies at the same faculty and was a member of the Commission for the Formation of the School Reading List for Primary Education, coordinated by the Bureau for the Development of Education.

 

Since 2000, he has been a court-certified translator from Albanian to Macedonian and vice versa.

 

For ten years, he worked in a municipal primary school in Kichevo.

 

His published works include:

 

• "Metodika e mësimdhënies së gjuhës shqipe në ciklin e ulët të arsimit fillor" (Methodology of Teaching Albanian Language in Primary Education), a textbook used by students at the Faculty of Pedagogy in Skopje, 2019, ISBN 978-608-66370-0-2.
• "Stratifikimi shoqëror dhe arsimi" (Social Stratification and Education), Focusprint, Skopje, 2020, ISBN 978-608-66370-1-9.
• "E folmja e rrethit të Kërçovës" (The Dialect of the Kichevo Region), Çabej, Tetovo, 2011, ISBN 978-9989-150-71-5.
• "Kategoritë gramatikore të foljes në romanet e Ismail Kadaresë të përkthyera nga shqipja në maqedonishte" (The Grammatical Categories of the Verb in Ismail Kadare`s Novels Translated from Albanian into Macedonian), doctoral dissertation, defended at the "Blaže Koneski" Faculty of Philology in Skopje, 2011.

He speaks Albanian (native language), Macedonian, other Slavic languages, and English.