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Val Bodurtha

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Val Bodurtha was selected as BookLogix’s 2015 winner of its annual Young Writers Contest for her debut novel, “The History Makers,” an alternative history she wrote at 17. This year, the novel was also awarded a coveted Silver Benjamin Franklin award in Teen Fiction from the Independent Book Publishers Association, the industry's largest trade group.

A recent graduate and classics major from the University of Chicago, Val is an active writer, performer and producer, with a specialty in comedy.

Her writing has garnered more than two dozen writing awards and she has had three of her plays staged. That includes an Off-Broadway production of “What Really Happened,” a retelling of pivotal events through history, which was recognized by Scholastic ...more

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Val Bodurtha Ultimately, I hope that readers have a fun and fast-paced reading experience that engenders a shared appreciation for the Aztec civilization and its u…moreUltimately, I hope that readers have a fun and fast-paced reading experience that engenders a shared appreciation for the Aztec civilization and its unrealized potential. However, I also hope that readers notice how the issues of classism, misinformed masses, and the way religion interacts with the state affect all kinds of governments, real or imagined. Perhaps, we ourselves do not receive "enlightenment" when we come of age, as Myla did, but that doesn't mean we can't be aware of the issues around us.(less)

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I was seventeen and finishing my senior year of high school. My AP World History teacher, Dr. Susan Groppi, instructed us to write a short story from …more
I was seventeen and finishing my senior year of high school. My AP World History teacher, Dr. Susan Groppi, instructed us to write a short story from the perspective of someone in either the Aztec or the Mayan civilization. The result was only four pages long, but that summer, I spent time exploring it further. I never dreamed it would come this far.

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In an effort to pay homage to Paul Giamatti and other unrecognized souls, Val Bodurtha and two of her favorite collaborators from years past, Sophie Mann and Rebecca Shaw, have been campaigning tirelessly to install a wax figure of the actor Paul Giamatti at Madame Tussauds in New York.

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Jan 16, 2018 08:29AM

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“Val tells Forbes: We ardently believe that that in the back of everyone’s minds is a wax figure of Paul Giamatti, a physical manifestation of something or someone deserving going unnoticed for too long. Maybe your Wax Paul Giamatti is your friend who deserves that promotion and is continually passed over. Maybe it’s that album you adored that didn’t even score a Grammy nomination. Or maybe your Wax Paul Giamatti you, every time you sell yourself short. In short, we didn’t know it then, but by the time we reached the end of the museum, his absence was not only felt, it was mourned.”
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“The country is pretty divided right now. We think that this is one thing that can unite everyone - Bodurtha told TimeOutNY on 7/25 for its article about her efforts to convince Madame Toussaud to include a wax likeness of Paul Giamatti in its collection.”
― Val Bodurtha

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