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 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) References 1937 births Living people 20th-century Belgian novelists Belgian poets in French Writers from Liège Belgian people of Ukrainian descent Belgian women poets Belgian women novelists 21st-century Belgian novelists 20th-century Belgian poets 20th-century Belgian women writers 21st-century Belgian women writers