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 A Low-Residency ProgramVictor Rangel-Ribeiro, the award-winning Indian novelist, was born in Goa in 1925 when it was still a Portuguese colony, but he counts English among one of his three mother tongues. Having migrated to Bombay in 1939, his short stories were first published in the late 1940s and early 50s in the British Indian press; more recently they have been featured in three of America's top international literary journals—the North American, Iowa, and Literary Reviews—as well as in the Indian-American. The New York Foundation for the Arts awarded him its fiction fellowship in 1991; seven years later, his first novel, Tivolem, earned him the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, awarded each year to the best work of literary fiction published by Milkweed Editions of Minneapolis; Booklist, the influential journal of the American Library Association, picked Tivolem as "one of the twenty notable first novels" of 1997-98. A subsequent book tour and readings took him to eight states and to Toronto, Canada. Penguin's paperback edition was short-listed for India's prestigious Crossword Book Award, and remained on that nation's bestseller list for several months. His latest publication is Loving Ayesha and Other Stories of East and West.
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