Victor Rangel-Ribeiro

Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (born 3 October 1925) is an American writer, former journalist, music conductor and editor. His is most noted as the author of Tivolem, 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.

Early life Born in Portuguese Goa in 1925, he lived in Saligão village. 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. The 1940s already saw a number of his English-language short stories appearing in British Indian publications.

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. have two children,

Works

This is a partial bibliography.

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

Novels Tivolem (Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1998)

Short stories 'The Miscreant', The Iowa Review 20.2 (1990): 52–65, '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 'The Miscreant', Selected Stories 1949-2016 (2017) 'Rescuing Patricia', The Brave New World of Goan Writing & Art 2025 (2025)

Music 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)