 Solzhenitsyn gave an unauthorized interview to a Japanese journalist that month about "The First Circle", another novel of his that the Soviet authorities had blocked, and read out loud from "Cancer Ward" to 600 people at the Kurchatov Institute of Physics.In 1968 a Russian edition was published in Italy and elsewhere in Europe, and in April that year unauthorized excerpts appeared in English in the "Times Literary Supplement" in the UK.An unauthorized English translation was published in 1968, first by The Bodley Head in the UK, then by Dial Press in the US.