Many good wishes to Victor Rangel Ribeiro. Enjoyed *Tivolem* when I first read it many years ago. Thanks, Frederick, for the bibliography.
best wishes, Rochelle On 3 October 2017 at 21:01, Frederick Noronha <fredericknoron...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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). > > Categories <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Category>: > > - 20th-century Indian novelists > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:20th-century_Indian_novelists> > - Writers from Goa > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Writers_from_Goa> > - Indian male novelists > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Indian_male_novelists> > - Indian male short story writers > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Indian_male_short_story_writers > > > - 1925 births <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1925_births> > - Living people <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_people> > - 20th-century Indian short story writers > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:20th-century_ > Indian_short_story_writers> > - Teachers College, Columbia University alumni > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Teachers_ > College,_Columbia_University_alumni> > > -- > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _/ > _/ Frederick Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا > _/ フレデリック・ノロニャ > _/ +91-9822122436 (SMS if you can't get through) > _/ > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ >