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Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Rangel-Ribeiro in 2017
Rangel-Ribeiro in 2017
Born1925 (age 98–99)
Goa, Portuguese India
Notable awardsMilkweed National Fiction Prize (1998)
SpouseLea Rangel-Ribeiro
Children2

Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (born 1925) is an Indian 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.

Life and career

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Born in Goa in 1925, he lived in Saligao village.[1] 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.[1]

Rangel-Ribeiro began his career by teaching at a high school in Bombay. He then began working as a journalist.[1]

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.[1]

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).[2]

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.[2]

He and his musician-educationist wife Lea (d. 2011)[3] have two children,[2] Eva and Eric.[1]

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 F. N. Souza titled F N Souza: The Legend, The Myths, The Facts, having known Souza for many years in New York.[1]

Works

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This is a partial bibliography.

Non-fiction

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  • Souza: The Artist, His Loves and His Times (Goa: Goa Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2019) – biography of F. N. Souza

Novels

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  • Tivolem (Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1998)

Short stories

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  • 'The Miscreant', The Iowa Review 20.2 (1990): 52–65,[4]
  • '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[5]
  • 'The Miscreant', Selected Stories 1949-2016 (2017)

Music

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b c d e f D’Cruz, Dolcy (19 Apr 2017). "The engrossing tales of the award-winning storyteller". oHeraldo. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
  2. ^ a b c Rajan, Gita (2003-03-30). "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.
  3. ^ Aseem Chhabra (Oct 1, 2011). "She smelled of Indianness". Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  4. ^ Rangel-Ribeiro, Victor (1990-04-01). "The Miscreant". The Iowa Review. 20 (2): 52–65. doi:10.17077/0021-065X.3883. ISSN 0021-065X.
  5. ^ "The Little Magazine - Victor Rangel-Ribeiro - Keeping in touch". www.littlemag.com. Archived from the original on 2023-04-23. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
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