Which volume of In Search of Lost Time won the Prix Goncourt?

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Portrait of French author Marcel Proust, seated with his hand resting thoughtfully against his chin, wearing a dark suit and looking directly at the camera. — Marcel Proust French author Marcel Proust wrote what is considered one of the supreme achievements of modern fiction, the seven-part autobiographical novel *À la recherche du temps perdu* (1913–27; *In Search of Lost Time*).

The volume of In Search of Lost Time that won the Prix Goncourt is À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (published in English as Within a Budding Grove or In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower). It received the award in December 1919.12