Complex sentence: Katharine Susannah Prichard (4 December 1883-2 October 1969), Australian author, was born in Levuka, Fiji, and spent her childhood in Launceston, Tasmania, then Melbourne, where she won a scholarship to South Melbourne College.
Split into simpler sentences: Katharine Susannah Prichard (4 December 1883-2 October 1969) was an Australian author. Prichard was born in Levuka, Fiji, and spent her childhood in Launceston, Tasmania, then Melbourne, where she won a scholarship to South Melbourne College.