Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (born 3 October 1925)[1] is an American writer, former journalist, music conductor and editor. His is most noted as the author of Tivolem (1998), whose writing was funded by a New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Fellowship (awarded 1991), and which was awarded the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award.
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_(33234019224).jpg) Rangel-Ribeiro in 2017 | |
| Born | 3 October 1925 |
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| Alma mater | Teachers College, Columbia University (M.A.) |
| Notable awards | Milkweed National Fiction Prize (1998) |
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Lea Rangel-Ribeiro (died 2011) |
| Children | 2 |
Early life
editBorn in Portuguese Goa in 1925, he lived in Saligão village.[2] He counts Konkani, Portuguese, and English as his three mother tongues. He moved to Bombay and took his BA from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai in 1945.[citation needed] The 1940s already saw a number of his English-language short stories appearing in British Indian publications.[2]
Career
editRangel-Ribeiro began his career by teaching at a high school in Bombay. He then began working as a journalist.[2]
After Indian independence in 1947, he became an assistant editor and music critic of the National Standard, Sunday editor for the Calcutta edition of the Times of India (1953), and a literary editor for The Illustrated Weekly. He was the first Indian to be appointed Copy Chief at the advertising giant J Walter Thompson's Bombay office, but migrated to the US just months later.[2]
In 1956, he emigrated to the United States, along with his wife, Lea, and worked part-time as a music critic for the New York Times. From 1964 to 1973 he ran a music antiquariat in New York City, became director of the New York Beethoven Society (overseeing its entry into the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts).[3]
In 1983, he took an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University, taught for a time in private and public schools, and then became involved in coordinating adult literacy teaching.[3]
In 1998, he wrote his first book, Tivolem, which won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize that year. In 2017, he released a collection of short stories written by him in his entire career, titled The Miscreant: Selected Stories (1949-2016). The same year, he released a biography of artist F. N. Souza titled F N Souza: The Legend, The Myths, The Facts, having known Souza for many years in New York.[2]
Personal life
editWorks
editThis is a partial bibliography.
Non-fiction
edit- Souza: The Artist, His Loves and His Times (Goa: Goa Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2019) – biography of F. N. Souza
Novels
edit- Tivolem (Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1998)
Short stories
edit- 'The Miscreant', The Iowa Review 20.2 (1990): 52–65,[6]
- 'Madonna of the Raindrops' and 'Day of the Baptist', Literary Review, 39.4 (1998)
- 'Senhor Eusebio Builds his Dream House' and 'Angel Wings', in Ferry Crossing: Short Stories from Goa, ed. by Manohar Shetty (New Delhi: Penguin, 1998)
- Loving Ayesha and Other Tales from Near and Far (2002)
- 'Keeping in Touch', The Little Magazine, 2.4[7]
- 'The Miscreant', Selected Stories 1949-2016 (2017)
- 'Rescuing Patricia', The Brave New World of Goan Writing & Art 2025 (2025)[8]
Music
edit- Baroque Music, a Practical Guide for the Performer (New York: Schirmer, 1981)
- Victor Rangel-Ribeiro and Robert Markel. Chamber Music: An International Guide to Works and Their Instrumentation (New York: Facts on File, 1993)
- Damoreau, Laure-Cinthie, Classic Bel Canto Technique, trans. by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (Mineola: Dover, 1997)
- Chausson, Ernest, Selected Songs for Voice and Piano, trans. by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (Mineola: Dover, 1998)
- Chausson, Ernest, Concerto in D for Piano, Violin, and String Quartet, Op. 21 in Full Score, ed. by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (Minneola: Dover, 1999)
- Saint-Saens, Camille, Danse Macabre and Other Works for Piano Solo, ed. by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (Mineola: Dover, 1999)
- Satie, Erik, Parade and Other Works for Piano Four Hands, ed. by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (Mineola: Dover, 1999)
- Satie, Erik, Parade in Full Score, ed. by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (Mineola: Dover, 2000)
References
edit- ↑ Times, Navhind (12 October 2014). "The Many Paths One Takes in Life, And An Apologia Pro Vita Mea – The Navhind Times | Goa News". Retrieved 15 March 2025.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 D’Cruz, Dolcy (19 April 2017). "The engrossing tales of the award-winning storyteller". oHeraldo. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- 1 2 3 Rajan, Gita (30 March 2003). "Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (1925-)". In Sanga, Jaina C. (ed.). South Asian Novelists in English: An A-to-Z Guide. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 207–211. ISBN 978-0-313-31885-6.
- ↑ Aseem Chhabra (1 October 2011). "She smelled of Indianness". Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
- ↑ Colin (11 February 2021). "Victor Rangel-Ribeiro". Serving House Books. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
- ↑ Rangel-Ribeiro, Victor (1 April 1990). "The Miscreant". The Iowa Review. 20 (2): 52–65. doi:10.17077/0021-065X.3883. ISSN 0021-065X.
- ↑ "The Little Magazine - Victor Rangel-Ribeiro - Keeping in touch". www.littlemag.com. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ↑ "The Brave New World of Goan Writing & Art 2025". The Dogears Bookshop. 14 October 2025. Retrieved 28 February 2026.
External links
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Media related to Victor Rangel-Ribeiro at Wikimedia Commons- "Virtual book release of Souza: The Artist, His Loves, & His Times". Facebook. Sunaparanta, Goa Centre for the Arts. 21 January 2021.
