The purpose of this study has been to investigate the use of literary texts written in Spanish by Spanish teachers in the Swedish primary school in face of three aspects: extent, motivation and text choice. Three research questions were asked: (i) to what extent literary texts in Spanish are used in primary school Spanish lessons and which aspects of teacher’s background come into play; (ii) what motivates primary school Spanish teachers to use or not use literary texts written in Spanish in their teaching; and (iii) which factors are taken into account when primary school Spanish teachers choose literary texts written in Spanish that they find suitable for their students. Based on those questions, we conducted a survey that was answered by 41 Spanish teachers in primary school. The first part of the survey was used for a quantitative analysis of the extent to which the respondents use authentic literary texts in their teaching and which factors come into play. The second part of the survey was used to make a qualitative analysis of why the respondents use or do not use literary texts in their Spanish lessons, and how those who actually use literary texts choose them. The results show that the majority of the respondents, within almost all the variables we analyzed, do not use literary texts in Spanish in their teaching because of mainly three factors: students’ low level of knowledge in the language, need of previous knowledge in grammar structures and heavy workload. The results also show that the respondents that do use literary texts are aware of the main criteria they should follow to choose such texts for their lessons.