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The Castillian language has no influence on Portuguese literature. The Spanish rule didn't last that long to create a deep relationship between the two literatures. Apart from the bestsellers, Spanish literature doesn't reach Portugal that much, unfortunately.

Now the relationship with Brazilian literature is different: there used to be such a tight connection in the past, that Machado de Assis could change Eça's style. It has a lot of respect here in Portugal: João Ubaldo Ribeiro, for instance, won the Camões Prize this year. Does it influence our literature? I wouldn't think so: Portugal is concerned with itself, with its recent colonial past (Lídia Jorge, António Lobo Antunes) or the conflict between urban and country life (Aquilino Ribeiro, Miguel Torga, Vergílio Ferreira). Writers like Saramago, who eliminate Portuguse culture in their work and embrance a global identity, are rarer.