 He won the Prix Goncourt in 1978 for his novel "Rue des boutiques obscures" ("Missing Person") and the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1972 for "Les Boulevards de ceinture".He also won the 2010 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France for his lifetime achievement, and the 2012 Austrian State Prize for European Literature.Called the "Marcel Proust of our time", he was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the Occupation".