Cancer Ward

Раковый корпус

Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAD 1918–2008

First published AD 1967, written in Russian

Cancer Ward is a semi-autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize–winning Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Completed in 1966, the novel was distributed in Russia that year in samizdat, and banned there the following year. In 1968, several European publishers published it in Russian, and in April 1968, excerpts in English appeared in the Times Literary Supplement in the UK without Solzhenitsyn's permission. An unauthorized English translation was published that year, first by The Bodley Head in the UK, then by Dial Press in the US.