Glenny made several trips to the Soviet Union in his search for significant works for translation. An early work by Alexander Solzhenitsyn The First Circle came out in translation in 1968 by Michael Guybon; it was later revealed that this was the pen name of a trio of translators: Glenny, Max Hayward and Manya Harari.The Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Center: About translations. His translation of Yuri Trifonov's The House on the Embankment was well received.
