Jörg Steiner was born in Biel (Switzerland), where he is still currently living. He studied Education and worked as a teacher until he started to publish his literary works.
He has been awarded with, among others, the Charles Veillon International Award, the Canton of Bern Literarture Award, the Mildred L. Batchelder Award (USA), the Gustav Heinemann Peace Award, the German Young Adults’ Literature Award , the Erich Fried Award (Austria), the Literature Award of Berlin…
Jörg Steiner is a member of Group 47.
Big Grey is a brilliantly narrated and illustrated story that takes place in beautiful landscapes and scenes with an impressive plasticity, starting from the flight of the two rabbits that are the main characters.
However, living free, which is so necessary for Little Brown, becomes a torture for Big Grey.
Stunned by a world he is not accustomed to, the world of freedom, he asks her runaway fellow to go back to the rabbits factory, back to the cage, where he will have all he needs.
He will wait there for the men to take him, soon, to the White Guardians Country, a place nobody has ever come back from and nobody knows where it is.
"… a beautiful and disturbing work, over which a sharp criticism and an intelligent parable about freedom are woven” (Gustavo Puerta in El Cultural de El Mundo).
“There are some factories where chocolate is made, and they are called chocolate factories. There are some factories where cannons are made, cannon factories. But the one this is about is a rabbits factory. It does not have tall chimneys and it is barely noisy.
This is how this book begins, written by a great author and with a great illustrator. Both of them have been awarded worldwide. The first of them surprises us with an emphatic text, a sometimes tender, sometimes thrilling text. The second one does it with a work full of a raw realism, with an extensive use of perspective” (Félix Albo in La Biblioteca de los Elefantes).