Credit: Conor Horgan 2025
Profile
Djamel White
Djamel White is a writer from Dublin, Ireland. He holds an MFA from University College Dublin and is the recipient of a Literature Bursary Award and an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. His debut novel All Them Dogs will be published in 2026 by John Murray Press, and Riverhead Books.
ALL THEM DOGS Spring 2026
"In the best Irish style, Djamel White uses a local voice to blast through language and make it new. His hero, Tony Ward, is a bittersweet confection of self-defeating swagger and All Them Dogs is a stylish, adroit and gritty debut"– Anne Enright, author of the booker prize winning the gathering
“All Them Dogs is a claustrophobic masterpiece—an emotionally devastating literary crime novel set in Dublin's underworld, where violence, poverty, and toxic masculinity form a brutal backdrop to a brilliantly tender love story. Here is an intimate tale of violence and desire that is as sharp as the knives wielded on the page. Djamel White has taken a familiar genre and turned it into something bright and new, burning like white phosphorus.” – Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts
“ALL THEM DOGS is as compelling as your favorite gangster movie, as profound as your favorite novel. So sexy and tender and dangerous and poetic and frightening.” – August Thompson, author of ANYONE’S GHOST
“All Them Dogs is all that— a book you inhale, devour, grapple with, and reel from more than read. A coming-of-age novel for an age that comes breathing down the back of your neck. The kind of book where everything is on the edge of a knife and where love, like death, is either a kiss or a bullet away." – Marlon James, author of the Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings
"Exhilarating and often frightening - Djamel White’s first novel is a hugely satisfying read. It adds new streets to Dublin’s literary map." – Roddy Doyle, Author of the booker prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha