title: Irène Stecyk
text: # 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)
  