Complex sentence: Velma Wallis is an Athabascan Indian born in 1960 in a remote Alaskan village near with Fort Yukon, approx.200 km to the north-east of Fairbanks in Alaska is a US-American novelist whose work has been translated into 17 languages.
Split into simpler sentences: Velma Wallis is an Athabascan Indian born in 1960 in a remote Alaskan village near with Fort Yukon, approx.200 km to the north-east of Fairbanks in Alaska. She is a US-American novelist whose work has been translated into 17 languages.