Hugo Camps
Hugo Camps (12 May 1943 – 29 October 2022) was a Belgian journalist, columnist and writer.
Hugo Camps | |
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 Camps in 2011 | |
| Born | 12 May 1943 Molenstede, Diest, Belgium |
| Died | 29 October 2022 (aged 79) Knokke, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Occupation | journalist, columnist and writer |
Camps has 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]
Awards and prizes
- 1988 - he became Knight in the Order of Leopold II.
- 2007 - Bronze Medal of the Lucas-Ooms Fund.
- 2 March 2016 - he became Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau. This was as a celebation 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 her residence in Brussels.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Belgische schrijver en columnist Hugo Camps (79) overleden". NRC Handelsblad (in Nederlands). 29 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Belgische journalist en schrijver Hugo Camps overleden op 79-jarige leeftijd". NU.nl (in Nederlands). 29 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
- ↑ "Journalist Hugo Camps overleden". De Tijd (in Nederlands). 29 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
- ↑ Hugo Camps benoemd tot Ridder in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau, ewmagazine.nl, 2 March 2016