Complex sentence: His second work was a novel, "Chaavunilam" (Land of Death), based on the coastal life in Kochi and published in 1996 by DC Books, which won the State Bank of Travancore award for the best novel.
Split into simpler sentences: His second work was a novel, "Chaavunilam" (Land of Death), based on the coastal life in Kochi and published in 1996 by DC Books. The novel won the State Bank of Travancore award for the best novel.