Victor Rangel-Ribeiro

Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (born 1925) is an Indian writer, former journalist, music conductor and editor.

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 Indian independence in 1947, Rangel-Ribeiro 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.

He was the first Indian to be appointed Copy Chief at the advertising giant J Walter Thompson's Bombay office, but migrated to the US just months later.

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

From 1964 to 1973 he ran a music antiquariat in New York City, 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 coordinating adult literacy teaching.

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.

He and his musician-educationist wife Lea (d.2011) have two children.

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