Complex sentence: Similar to his heroes, Alfredo Bryce Echenique also lived for decades far away from his home city of Lima to which he only returned to in 1999, also that year he was granted a honorary degree by the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
Split into simpler sentences: Similar to his heroes, Alfredo Bryce Echenique also lived for decades far from his home city of Lima to which he only returned in 1999. Also that year he was granted an honorary degree by the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.