Complex sentence: At the suggestion of his aunt Virginie Loveling, being herself an author, he started writing when he was twenty-six and became known as a naturalist writer in the tradition of Stijn Streuvels, Emile Zola and Guy De Maupassant.
Split into simpler sentences: At the suggestion of his aunt Virginie Loveling, being herself an author, he started writing when he was twenty-six. He became known as a naturalist writer in the tradition of Stijn Streuvels, Emile Zola and Guy De Maupassant.