Platanario en China won Ecuadorian writer Veronica Bonilla the Special Book Award for 2021. QUITO -- Ecuadorian writer Veronica Bonilla has received the Special Book Award for 2021, the highest recognition by China for a foreign writer. The China Special Book Award has been awarded since 2005 to foreign translators, writers and publishers who have made significant contribution to promoting …
An oft-forgotten fact about the Bobby Bonilla era with the New York Mets is that there were actually two Bobby Bonilla eras. The first one began in December 1991, when Bonilla, then 28 and a four-time All-Star with the Pittsburgh Pirates, signed a five-year, $29 million contract—Major League Baseball’s most lucrative ever up to that point—to move to Queens and …
