Thank you for the good wishes, dear Frederick! But in terms of productive
activity, perhaps most people could learn from you!
Warmest regards,
Victor
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From: Frederick Noronha <[email protected]>
To: goanet <[email protected]>; vrangelrib <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, Oct 3, 2017 11:31 am
Subject: At 92, it cannot but be a very happy birthday
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
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Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (born 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 Fiction Fellowship (awarded 1991), and which
was awarded the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the
Crossword Book Award.
Contents [hide]
1
Biography
2
Works
2.1
Novels
2.2
Short Stories
2.3
Music
3
References
Biography[edit source]
Born in Goa, counting Konkani, Portuguese, and English as his three mother
tongues,[1] he moved to Mumbai in 1939 and took his BA from St. Xavier's
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. 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).[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 co-ordinating
adult literacy teaching.[3]
He and Lea have two children.[4]
Works[edit source]
This is a partial bibliography.
Novels[edit source]
Tivolem (Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1998)
Short Stories[edit source]
'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]
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]
Jump up^ http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/lais/goa-bios.htm
Jump up^ 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).
Jump up^ 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).
Jump up^ 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:
20th-century Indian novelists
Writers from Goa
Indian male novelists
Indian male short story writers
1925 births
Living people
20th-century Indian short story writers
Teachers College, Columbia University alumni
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