Adalet Cimcoz

Translator, Writer

Death
13 March, 1970

Translator, writer (B. 1910, Çanakkale- D. March 13, 1970, Istanbul). She has completed the primary school in her hometown, and completed her secondary education in Germany. She has managed the Maya Art Gallery she had established in 1951. She worked in a sector of film editing with her brother Ferdi Tayfur for a while. She was known with her translations from Modern German Literature (Brecht, F. Kafka, B. Traven, G. Büchner et.al.).

Her articles and translations were published in journals such as Yeditepe, Varlık, Yeni Ufuklar. She won Turkish Language Society Translation prize for 1962 with her translation of Franz Kafka’s Letters to Milena (1961).

WORKS:

TRANSLATION: Ölüm Gemisi (from B. Brecht, with T. Aktürel, 1957), Milena’ya Mektuplar (from F. Kafka, 1961), Sezuan’ın İyi İnsanı (1961), Dinamit (1963) - Pamuk İşçileri (1968) (from B. Traven), Galile (1963), Leonce ile Lena (1963) - Bütün Yapıtları (from Georg Büchner, 2001), On Dakka Sonra Buffalo (from G. Grass, 1964), Bay Funtila ile Uşağı Matti (from B. Brecht, 1965), Eğlentili Bir Gömme Töreni (from Tibor Dery, 1967), Kafka’nın Sevgilisi Milena (from M. Buber-Neumann, 1967), Adanmış Topraklar Üstünde (E. Kishon, 1969).

COMPILATION: Dünya Yazınından Seçilmiş Kısa Oyunlar 1 (with Mehmet Fuat Ülkü Tamer).

REFERENCE: Reşad Ekrem Koçu / İstanbul Ansiklopedisi (vol. 7, issue 3572-3574), Mine Söğüt / Adalet Cimcoz: Bir Yaşamöyküsü Denemesi (2000), TBE Ansiklopedisi (2001), Adalet Cimcoz - Bir Yaşamöyküsü Denemesi (Edebiyat ve Eleştiri dergisi, March-April 2003), İhsan Işık (TEKAA, 2009).

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