Adalet Cimcoz (25 July 1910 – 13 March 1970) was a Turkish voice actress, art curator, critic, translator and gossip columnist.
Adalet was born to Hüseyin Tayfur and his wife Aliye in Kilitbahir village of Eceabat district in Çanakkale Province, then Ottoman Empire, on 25 July 1910.
[2][3][4] Thanks to her husband, who was a lawyer and had a social circle of friends in arts and politics, she met and became associated with notable people in arts and literature, among them Sabahattin Ali, Nâzım Hikmet, Cemal Tollu, Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, Ercüment Kalmık, Avni Arbaş, Kuzgun Acar, Ara Güler, and many more.
[6] Among the actresses she dubbed for were Türkan Şoray, Hülya Koçyiğit, Belgin Doruk, Fatma Girik, Filiz Akın, Muhterem Nur, and Neriman Köksal in numerous films.
[7] Finding the opportunity to watch all the tours of the traditional theater where she lived, she also performed the shadow play Karagöz and Hacivat at home.
[3] Among the various works exhibited at Maya Art Gallery were those by Cemal Tollu, a member of the artist collective Group D, and by Melda Kaptana.
Organized by the Friends of Art Association which Cimcoz co-founded, 61 works of women painters were on display in the gallery.
[2] From 1957 on, she translated German works by such authors as Berthold Brecht, Knut Hamsun, Georg Büchner, B. Traven, Lope de Vega, Franz Kafka, T. Tibor Déry, and Max Frisch into Turkish.