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Irène Stecyk

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Irène Stecyk (born July 27, 1937) is an award-winning 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.

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
  • 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)

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    Irène Stecyk Wikipedia
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