This thesis is about Swedish and Serbian teachers and their views on how literature should be taught to students in high school. The twist is that these teachers live in two different European countries, and work under two different educational systems. Three of them work in Stockholm, Sweden and the other three in Belgrade, Serbia. The purpose of this thesis was to find similarities and differences in the practice of teaching literature among teachers in these two different educational systems. The teachers were interviewed separately and spoke freely about their views and methods when teaching literature. The results seem to indicate that two European countries have two totally different approaches to literature, but also that the interviewed teachers were not as heavily influenced by the curriculum as one would expect, but their own individual opinions, interests and passions.