Born in 1971, novel author, screenwriter, playwriter, director, photographer, actor. Member of the board of the Polish Screenwriters’ Guild.
Author of crime novels: “Paradox”, “Szadź” (“The Rime”) with publishing house Marginesy, “Rysa” (“The Crack”), “Układ” (“The Pact”), “Wiatr” (“The Wind”) recognized as the best Polish crime novel of 21′ by the bimonthly “Books. A magazine to read” of Gazeta Wyborcza and also “Sieroty” (“The Orphants”) with GW Foksal publishing house.
After moving to a new publishing house “Znak” he wrote “Spiral” and “The Tangle”, that was also included in the autumn 2023 list of the 10 world best crime novels according to the prestigious supplement of Gazeta Wyborcza, “Books. A magazine to read.”
For the novel “The Crack” he was nominated for the Grand Caliber Award 2019 and received the award named after Janina Paradowska.
Co-author and one of the hosts in series of short stories based on true crime events titled “I’ll Tell You About a Crime”. Based on these stories, Crime & Investigation Polsat (A&E Network) channel has already produced six editions of the program under the same title.
Scriptwriter of feature films: “Palimpsest”, “A Simple Story About Murder” and tv series: “Paradox” TVP, “Crime” AXN, “Belle epoque” TVN, “Erynie” (“Erinyes”) TVP, “Open your eyes” Netflix, “Mother” Polsat.
Head of the team creating the script for the first Polish series ever available on Netflix – “Ultraviolet”. Creator of the idea and co-writer of the TVN series “Szadź” (“The Rime”), based on his own novel of the same title.
Head of the team and main scriptwriter in the series “Rysa” (“The Crack) and “Układ” (“The Pact”), also based on his own novels. The series “Szadź” and “Rysa” were nominated in 2021 for the Eagles – the award of the Polish Film Academy in the category of the best fiction film series.
“Brejdygant is a specific writer as he writes in images, so one could be tempted to call him a film novelist.”
Interviews
,,It’s worse than it was two years ago. What’s happening in the world – not only in Poland, we’re experiencing a sort of civilizational-cultural regression – I often colloquially refer to it as the ‘counter-revolution of men.’ Not everyone, of course, but those who perceive a threat to their own position in a world striving for equality. From where this position stems and has stemmed for millennia, I’m not entirely sure,” says Igor Brejdygant, screenwriter, photographer, and writer, author of the crime novel “Rysa”.
,,I escaped to the mountains, to get away from time, because functioning here is getting a bit exhausting.” -Igor Brejdygant
* Translated from Polish
Reviews
“I don’t think any book has ever impacted me during reading quite like ‘Wiatr’ by Igor Brejdygant. The author brilliantly captures the atmosphere of the places he describes. Even now, I remember the shivers down my spine as I followed the main character through the snowdrifts on the Tatra trails or the atmosphere of the inns that hit me even before Laurent took his first sip of alcohol. That’s why when I heard about the new crime novel by this author titled ‘Sieroty,’ I knew I was in for evenings with an intriguing story. And I wasn’t disappointed. Brejdygant invites us into the depths of an exceptionally dark and unsettling tale that draws us in more and more, wrapping us in its claws so subtly that we can’t stop thinking about it.” – Anna Joanna Brzezińska
* Translated from Polish