Hugo Camps

Hugo Camps
Camps in 2011
Born	(1943-05-12)12 May 1943 Molenstede [nl], Diest, Belgium
Died	29 October 2022(2022-10-29) (aged 79) Knokke, Belgium
Occupations	Journalist columnist writer

Hugo Camps (12 May 1943 – 29 October 2022) was a Belgian journalist, columnist and writer.

Camps published in both Belgian and Dutch magazines and wrote several books in particular about football and cycling. He worked for over thirty-five years for Elsevier Weekblad , for which he wrote a weekly interview and a column about sports until his death.^[1][2][3]

Camps died in Knokke on 29 October 2022, at the age of 79.^[1][2]

Awards and prizes

• 1988 – Knight of the Order of Leopold II.
• 2007 – Bronze Medal of the Lucas-Ooms Fund [nl].
• 2016 – Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau. This was as a celebration of this 30th anniversary with Elsevier Weekblad. That day, in the presence of among others, the former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, he was awarded this order by the Dutch ambassador to Belgium, Maryem van den Heuvel, during lunch at her residence in Brussels.^[4]

References

1. Hofman, Flóri (29 October 2022). "Belgische schrijver en columnist Hugo Camps (79) overleden" [Belgian writer and columnist Hugo Camps (79) passed away]. NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 October 2022.
2. "Belgische journalist en schrijver Hugo Camps overleden op 79-jarige leeftijd" [Belgian journalist and writer Hugo Camps dies at the age of 79]. NU.nl (in Dutch). 29 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
3. "Journalist Hugo Camps overleden" [Journalist Hugo Camps passed away]. De Tijd (in Dutch). 29 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
4. "Hugo Camps benoemd tot Ridder in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau" [Hugo Camps appointed Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau]. ewmagazine.nl (in Dutch). 2 March 2016.