Complex sentence: His career as a novelist began with "The Song of Names", a tale of two boys growing up in wartime London, which was published in 2001 and went on to win the 2002 Whitbread Award for First Novel.
Split into simpler sentences: His career as a novelist began with "The Song of Names", a tale of two boys growing up in wartime London. It was published in 2001 and went on to win the 2002 Whitbread Award for First Novel.