Irène Stecyk
# Irène Stecyk

Irène Stecyk (born 27 July 1937) is a Belgian writer.

The daughter of a Ukrainian father and a Belgian mother, she was born in Liège and was educated there, going on to study library science. She worked as a librarian and was also secretary for the writer Alexis Curvers for a number of years.

In 1960, she published a collection of poetry Les monstres sympathiques. However, she is best known as a novelist. Stecyk has also published stories and articles in various journals in France and Belgium.

She was married to the poet Yves Lebon, who died in 2003.

## Awards and honours

* 1972 – Prix Victor-Rossel for Une petite femme aux yeux bleus

## Selected works

* Une petite femme aux yeux bleus (1973), received the Prix Victor-Rossel, was later adapted for television
* Mazeppa, prince de l'Ukraine (1981), received the Prix Jeanne Boujassy awarded by the French Société des gens de lettres and the prize awarded every five years for a historical novel by the Association des écrivains belges de langue française [fr]
* Perle morte (1992), received the Prix Sander Pierron from the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique
* La Balzac (1992), received the Prix du Conseil de la Communauté Française
* La fille de Pierre (2001)
