Irène Stecyk
{{Short description|Belgian writer (born 1937)}}
Irène Stecyk (born 27 July 1937) is a Belgian novelist and poet.
Biography
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.{{cite web |url=http://festivaliege.be/jury/irene-stecyk/ |title=Irène Stecyk |work=Festival International du Film Policier de Liège |language=fr |access-date=2016-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415010804/http://festivaliege.be/jury/irene-stecyk/ |archive-date=2016-04-15 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.ecrivainsbelges.be/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=296 |title=Stecyk, Irène |publisher=Association des Écrivains belges de langue française |language=fr}}
In 1960, she published a collection of poetry Les monstres sympathiques. However, she is best known as a novelist.{{cite web |url=http://www.servicedulivre.be/sll/fiches_auteurs/s/stecyk-irene.html |title=Irène Stecyk |publisher=Service du Livre Luxembourgeois |language=fr |access-date=2016-04-03 |archive-date=2016-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416043928/http://www.servicedulivre.be/sll/fiches_auteurs/s/stecyk-irene.html |url-status=dead }} Stecyk has also published stories and articles in various journals in France and Belgium.
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 {{Interlanguage link multi|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)
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Category:20th-century Belgian novelists
Category:Belgian poets in French
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Category:Belgian women novelists
Category:21st-century Belgian novelists
Category:20th-century Belgian poets
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