Here's wishing a very happy birthday indeed to Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, who turns a grand (and very productive) 92 years old today. When we last spoke, he was simultaneously working on three books, and was making suggestions for another!
Thanks to Goanet, I first met VRR (as I call him) some two decades ago. At that stage, he was 70+ and just embarking on the launch of his novel Tivolem, in Goa. It was a function at the Mandovi's. Since then, he has helped mentor the GoaWriters group, and build a lot of useful bridges with Goa. Here's wishing him many more productive times ahead. FN 9822122436 Victor Rangel-Ribeiro >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#mw-head> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#p-search> *Victor Rangel-Ribeiro* (born Goa <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa> 1925) is a writer. His is most noted as the author of *Tivolem* (1998), whose writing was funded by a New York Foundation for the Arts <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Foundation_for_the_Arts> Fiction Fellowship (awarded 1991), and which was awarded the Milkweed National Fiction Prize <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkweed_National_Fiction_Prize> and shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossword_Book_Award>. Contents [hide] - 1Biography <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Biography> - 2Works <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Works> - 2.1Novels <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Novels> - 2.2Short Stories <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Short_Stories> - 2.3Music <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Music> - 3References <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#References> Biography[edit source <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro&action=edit§ion=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro> ] Born in Goa, counting Konkani, Portuguese, and English as his three mother tongues,[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#cite_note-1> he moved to Mumbai <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai> in 1939 and took his BA from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Xavier%27s_College,_Mumbai> in 1945. After a short spell teaching at high school, he moved into journalism. The 1940s already saw a number of his English-language short stories appearing in British Indian publications. After independence, he became 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*. In 1956 emigrated to the United States, along with his wife, Lea, and worked part-time as a music critic for the *New York Times* and as the first Indian copy chief for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Walter_Thompson>. From 1964-73 he ran a music antiquariat, became director of the New York Beethoven Society (overseeing its entry into the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts>).[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#cite_note-2> In 1983 he took an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachers_College,_Columbia_University>, taught for a time in private and public schools, and then became involved in co-ordinating adult literacy teaching.[3] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#cite_note-3> He and Lea have two children.[4] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#cite_note-4> Works[edit source <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro&action=edit§ion=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro> ] This is a partial bibliography. Novels[edit source <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro&action=edit§ion=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro> ] - *Tivolem* (Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1998) Short Stories[edit source <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro&action=edit§ion=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro> ] - 'The Miscreant', *The Iowa Review* 20.2 (1990): 52-65, http://ir.uiowa.edu/iowareview/vol20/iss2/19 - '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, http://www.littlemag.com/jul-aug01/victor.html Music[edit source <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro&action=edit§ion=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro> ] - *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 source <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro&action=edit§ion=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro> ] 1. *Jump up^ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#cite_ref-1>* http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/lais/goa-bios.htm 2. *Jump up^ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#cite_ref-2>* Gita Rajan, 'Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (1925-)', in *South Asian Novelists in English: An A-to-Z Guide*, ed. by Jaina C. Sanga (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2003), pp. 207-11 (p. 207). 3. *Jump up^ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#cite_ref-3>* Gita Rajan, 'Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (1925-)', in *South Asian Novelists in English: An A-to-Z Guide*, ed. by Jaina C. Sanga (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2003), pp. 207-11 (pp. 207-8). 4. *Jump up^ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#cite_ref-4>* Gita Rajan, 'Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (1925-)', in *South Asian Novelists in English: An A-to-Z Guide*, ed. by Jaina C. Sanga (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2003), pp. 207-11 (p. 207). 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