Editing Willem Elsschot (section)

== Personal life and death ==
He was married to Fine de Ridder, with whom he had a daughter, Ida. He also had a relationship with the poet Liane Bruylants.

In 1920, he became a knight of the [[Order of the Crown (Belgium)|Order of the Crown]].<ref>RD 2/12/1920</ref>

Elsschot died in Antwerp from a heart attack on 31 May 1960, at the age of 78. He was cremated and his ashes buried with the body of his wife in the [[Antwerpen Schoonselhof]]. He was posthumously awarded the State Prize for Literature, and in 1994 a statue of him was erected at Mechelseplein in Antwerp.

In 2005 he finished at No. 49 in the Flemish version of "[[De Grootste Belg]]" ("The Greatest Belgian").