- Her mother, Esther Amalia Doelwijt, was from Suriname and spoke Sranan Tongo, having moved to Curaçao at the age of eighteen.
- Her grandmother never learned Dutch and only spoke the Malay language and Papiamento. As her parents could only communicate in Dutch, Lebacs grew up speaking Dutch and Papiamento at home.
- Her father, Willem Mertjo Lebacs, was a chief customs officer, who also worked artistically as a carpenter and woodcarver.
- In 2007 she was honored as a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
- In 1976 she received Silver Stylus award, one of the Netherlands' highest honors for youth literature for her book Nancho van Bonaire.
- She was a Curaçaoan educator, actress, and author, most known for her children's literature.
- After Lebacs completed her primary education at the Philomena School she attended the María Immaculata Lyceum for her secondary studies. During this time, (1960-1961) she began writing novels for teenage girls and sang in a band, Teenage Shadows, from 1963 to 1966.
- She wanted to publish children's stories in the language spoken by children in the Dutch Antilles.
- In 2003 she earned the inaugural Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Caribisch Gebied (PBCCG Cultuurprijs, Prince Bernhard Caribbean Cultural Fund Prize) for her book Caimin's geheim.
- She wrote in both Papiamento and Dutch.
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