Cancer Ward (Russian: Раковый корпус, tr. Rakovy korpus) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.[1] Completed in 1966, the novel was distributed in Russia that year in samizdat, and banned there the following year.[2][3] 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.[4][5] An unauthorized English translation was published that year, first by The Bodley Head in the UK, then by Dial Press in the US.[3]