Complex sentence: Turner was Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in 1984, was awarded a Scholarship in Letters in 1994, and was Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury in 1997.
Split into simpler sentences: Turner was Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in 1984. He was awarded a Scholarship in Letters in 1994, and was Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury in 1997.