Book of my Life: Pelumi Adejumo in conversation with Lin An Phoa

About Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

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Date and time Saturday 24 January 2026 20:40 tot 21:00 uur
Location Filmhuis - Studio A
Price 15,- (up to 30 years or Ooievaarspas)
25,- (Early Bird, up to 26 December, thereafter 35,-)
32,50 (DenHaagPas).

Writers tells us about their favourite book: the book that inspires or touches them, that set their artistic, moral or intellectual compass. In short, the book they would recommend to everyone. Interview: Lin An Phoa.

Pelumi Adejumo chose Dictee, a 1982 book by Korean American author Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Considered to be Cha's magnum opus, the book, a genre-bending poetry collection, focuses on several women: the Korean revolutionary Yu Gwan Soon, Joan of Arc, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Demeter and Persephone, Cha's mother Hyun Soon Huo, and Cha herself. All these women are linked by their struggles and the way that nations have affected and twisted their lives.

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Lin An Phoa

(1995) writes poetry and performs as a spoken word artist. In her work, she explores how language, poetry, and the stage can be welcoming spaces, with room for underrepresented perspectives. She investigates questions surrounding cultural identity, feminism, choice menus, systemic criticism, muscle memory, and self-care culture. Her poetry is an invitation to connection, softening, and change. Her texts have appeared in De Revisor and the anthology Stip op de Horizon, among others. She can be seen as both a performer and host at many cultural venues and festivals.

Go to the website of Lin An Phoa
Instagram: @linanph
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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
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