In 1948 he visited Bulgaria as part of a voluntary youth aid scheme, the International Reconstruction Brigades, and was employed on the building of a railway between Pernik and Voluiek. From 1948 to 1951 he worked in Morocco, Guinea, Guadeloupe and Martinique for the Institut des Fruits et Agrumes Coloniaux, or Colonial Fruit Institute, but fell ill and had to be repatriated on health grounds. He never returned to his career as an agricultural scientist, but during his period of convalescence became a full-time writer instead. In 1957 he married Catherine Rstakian; there are no children from the marriage.
Robbe-Grillet has received several awards, none of them, it must be admitted, major ones. In 1955 he won the Prix des Critiques for Le Voyeur (The Voyeur), and in 1961 L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad), the film he wrote for Alain Resnais, won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. In 1963 his own film L'Immortelle (The Immortal One) won the Prix Louis Delluc, and in 1969 L'Homme qui ment (The Liar) won the prize for best screenplay at the Berlin Festival.
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