Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (born Goa 1925) is a writer.
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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.
Biography
Born in Goa, counting Konkani, Portuguese, and English as his three mother tongues, 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).
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.
He and Lea have two children.
Works
This is a partial bibliography.