Columnist and journalist Hugo Camps (79) passed away
Columnist and journalist Hugo Camps has died at the age of 79 in his hometown of Knokke. That has The last newsthe newspaper for which he wrote columns until his death, reported Saturday.
Camps was born in 1943 in Molenstede in Flemish Brabant. As a journalist, in the sixties, he published for our sister newspaper The Importance of Limburg reports on conflicts in countries such as Vietnam and Chile. From 1976 he was editor-in-chief of this newspaper for 10 years. Later, Camps focused on interviewing numerous politicians, well-known sports figures and others and wrote columns for the Dutch weekly Elsevier, NRC Handelsblad and the newspapers The morning andThe last news.
In 2001 he formed a column tandem with Bernard Dewulf, who passed away at the end of last year The morning with him appearing on the front page in turn. When are partner in crime gave up, writer Margot Vanderstraeten took his place and when she also resigned, he had the empire to himself and every day he quickly crept into his sharp pen as a regular columnist.
Later he filled the sports pages of The last news. For example, Thibaut Courtois and the cycling revelation of the past few years Remco Evenepoel were reviewed in his witty writings.