14h. Pedro Sobral. Funeral ceremonies will take place tomorrow at the Basilica of the Star

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For Ana Rita Bessa, CEO of LeYa, “Pedro deeply believed in the power of books and in the freedom of publishing, values with which he helped build LeYa. A friend of all the times and of all the books, to whom, today, we began to say goodbye with painful and genuine gratitude”.

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Pedro Sobral, director of the Portuguese Association of Publishers and Booksellers and LeYa, died this Saturday while riding a bicycle and was run over. Publisher speaks of “loss with insurmountable damage”.

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The cyclist who was hit by a car this Saturday morning in the Belém area is Pedro Sobral, director of Leya and president of the Portuguese Association of Publishers and Booksellers (APEL). During the pandemic, he was one of the main supporters of a sector, who saw him as a spokesperson for what he believed to be the power of books

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The president of the association that organizes the Book Fair, Pedro Sobral, was riding a bicycle this morning in Lisbon when he was hit by a car.

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Pedro Sobral, 51, was hit by a light vehicle whose driver then fled and presented himself to the authorities hours later, accompanied by a lawyer

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“It was with deep and heavy sadness that LeYa received, this morning, the news of the tragic death of Pedro Sobral, administrator of General Editions, following a hit-and-run,” the publisher said in a statement. The news of a fatal hitting of a cyclist on Avenida da Índia, in Lisbon, had been announced this morning by a PSP source. Pedro Sobral, 51, was hit by a light vehicle whose driver then fled and presented himself to the authorities hours …