Pelumi Adejumo

(1998) is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. In 2023, she received the Frans Vogel Poetry Prize for her multilingual work. Her practice explores the relationships between multilingualism, the body, mythology and collective memory, often through sound, performance and text. She was the translator of the multimedia performance Minor Music at the End of the World, which premiered in 2025 at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam. In 2025/2026, she will be one of the participants in the MacDowell Fellowship in New Hampshire. Adejumo publishes and performs both at home and abroad. Her work has been featured in De Gids, De Groene Amsterdammer, Point de Chute, Furious Flower IV, Museum Arnhem, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, A Tale of A Tub and Savvy Contemporary, among others. She has also worked as a thesis supervisor at the Sandberg Master BlackerBlackness Studies and is active as a programmer and translator at the international literature festival Read My World.

Instagram: @pelumiadejumo