Bárbara Dian Jacobs Barquet (born October 19, 1947 in Mexico City) is a Mexican writer, poet, essayist, translator and columnist. His first novel, Las hojas muertas (1987), won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, and was translated into several languages.1 From 1970 he published in literary magazines and supplements and collaborated in Revista de Bellas Artes, Revista de la Universidad de México, La Gaceta del Fondo de Cultura Económica and the cultural supplements "Sábado", by Unomásuno and "Babelia". of the newspaper El País. His books have been published in Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Argentina and Italy, the United States of America. Some of his works have been published in collective anthologies in Spanish, English, French, Italian and German.