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新华社巴黎7月26日电 题：巴黎奥运会倒计时两周年：浪漫过后，更需应对现实挑战新华社记者肖亚卓、胡雪2024年7月26日，第33届夏季奥林匹克运动会将在法国首都巴黎正式开幕，在倒计时两周年这一重要时间节点，巴黎奥组委揭晓了巴黎奥运会与残奥会的口号——奥运更开放（Games Wide Open）。

B | London, Oct 18 (UNI) "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" by Sri Lankan Shehan Karunatilaka, a supernatural satire set amid a murderous civil war in the island nation, has won the Booker Prize.

The novel is about a photographer who wakes up dead, with a week to ask his friends to find his photos and expose the brutality of war, BBC and other media reported.

Camilla, the Queen Consort, presented the prize, and the author said it had been "an honour and a privilege" to be on the shortlist.

Karunatilaka said as he accepted his prize: "My hope is that in the not too distant future... Sri Lanka has understood that these ideas of corruption and race-baiting and cronyism have not worked and will never work."

The writer said he decided in 2009 to write "a ghost story where the dead could offer their perspective" after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, "when there was a raging debate over how many civilians died and whose fault it was".

"I hope it's in print in 10 years... if it is, I hope it's written in a Sri Lanka that learns from its stories, and that Seven Moons will be in the fantasy section of the bookshop, next to the dragons, the unicorns and will not be mistaken for realism or political satire," the BBC reported

He added that he had "self-censored" a couple of short stories after author Salman Rushdie was stabbed in August, having faced years of death threats for his novel "The Satanic Verses", which some Muslims see as blasphemous.

"I was in the process of publishing a collection of short stories when this incident happened, and I discovered a couple which I don't think was offensive to any religion," Karunatilaka said.

"But my wife said, can you not do that? You've got two young kids. This story is not that good. Just leave it out."

He added that "this is something that hangs over all of us if we're writing in South Asia, especially writing about politics or religion", the BBC said.

Head judge Neil MacGregor praised the "scope and the skill, the daring, the audacity and hilarity" of the novel, calling it an "afterlife noir" which "takes the reader on a rollercoaster journey through life and death".

He said the judges' decision had been unanimous, adding all of the shortlisted books were "all really about one question, and that is what's the point of an individual life?"

The prestigious £50,000 prize, for a single work of fiction published in the UK in English, also gives the other five writers on the shortlist £2,500 each.

"The Seven Moons of Maali" is Karunatilaka's second novel, having previously won awards including the Commonwealth Book Prize for his debut book Chinaman, which was called the "second best cricket book of all time" by cricketers' almanac Wisden.

Born in 1975, the writer has also worked as an advertising copywriter, and his songs, scripts and stories have been published in Rolling Stone, GQ and National Geographic.

MacGregor, a former director of London's National Gallery and the British Museum, added that the judges read all 170 books put forward for the prize, then whittled them down to 30. They then re-read those, before deciding on the final six, which they read for a third time, the report said.

The other nominees were: "Glory" by NoViolet Bulawayo, "The Trees" by Percival Everett, "Treacle Walker" by Alan Garner, "Small Things Like These" by Claire Keegan and "Oh William!" by Elizabeth Strout.

The Booker-winning novel tells the story of the photographer of its title, who in 1990 wakes up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. With no idea who killed him, Maali has seven moons to contact the people he loves most and lead them to a hidden cache of photos of civil war atrocities that will rock Sri Lanka, the Daily Mirror reported.

The judges were unanimous in their decision to award the prize to Karunatilaka, according to the chair.

Receiving his prize, Karunatilaka addressed the people of Sri Lanka in Tamil and Sinhalese. He summarised what he said in English: “I write these books for you… Let’s keep sharing these stories.”

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is published by the independent press Sort of Books. This year is the first time a book by the publisher has been longlisted for the prize.

Karunatilaka has become the second Sri Lankan-born author to win, following Michael Ondaatje, who won in 1992 with "The English Patient".

In his Guardian review, Tomiwa Owolade said the book’s “scenarios are often absurd … but executed with a humour and pathos that ground the reader”. He added: “Karunatilaka has done artistic justice to a terrible period in his country’s history.”

Karunatilaka, was born in Galle, Sri Lanka, in 1975 and grew up in Colombo.

UNI MR。无论是官方发布的宣传片，还是巴黎奥组委主席埃斯坦盖在接受采访时对这一口号的解读，无不透露着法国人对本届奥运会的宏大愿景——更开放、更包容、打破各种隔阂与限制，给奥林匹克运动带来一次前所未有的创新。塞纳河上的开幕式、市中心协和广场的运动公园、比赛场地融入著名景点，这些种种打破常规的设想，无不彰显着法国人的浪漫气质。

然而，浪漫过后，终究还得面临实际问题。随着巴黎奥运会日益临近，包括安保隐患、预算超支在内的种种问题日益凸显，成为组委会乃至法国政府必须面对的严峻考验。今年5月底在巴黎举行的欧冠决赛，因赛前球迷入场的混乱造成比赛推迟36分钟才开哨，赛后当地警方和球迷的互相指责引人关注，这也进一步引发了人们对巴黎奥运会安保问题的担忧。毕竟，相比一场足球赛，奥运会的时间跨度长得多，涉及的人员规模也要大得多。尤其是在塞纳河边这场计划由60万人参与的开幕式大派对，更成为所有人担心的焦点。就在倒计时两周年的前一天，法国总统马克龙召集多位有关部门的政府高级官员以及巴黎奥组委的负责人召开了一次线下会议，讨论的重点之一就是如何应对奥运期间的安全问题。据法国媒体透露，法国政府甚至不排除最终会调动军队来维持开幕式现场的秩序，防止意外情况的发生。具体到赛事期间，法国政府有可能将推迟包括环法在内的多项体育赛事及文化活动，优先保证奥运期间的安保力量需求。

C | 法国内政部官员在26日接受采访时表示，届时每天参与安保工作的警力将达到11000人。毫无疑问，增强安保力量相应地会带来另一个问题——预算成本的增加。近几个月来，一直有传闻法国政府要征收“奥运税”以应对举办奥运预算超支的问题，尽管总统马克龙已在近日否定了这一传闻，但依然无法打消各方对于奥运会花钱超支的担忧。巴黎奥运会的预算包括两部分——其中一部分约38.7亿欧元为巴黎奥组委的办赛费用，这笔费用的来源主要包括国际奥委会的补贴、商业赞助以及票务收入等；而另一部分大约有32亿欧元则交由一家名为奥运工程交付公司（SOLIDEO）的机构，负责奥运相关的场馆以及基础设施建设等。目前来看，由于通货膨胀带来的人力及原材料价格的上涨，场馆和基础设施建设面临的预算超支问题将更为严峻。如何保证所有场馆及基础设施按期交付，同时又将支出成本控制在合理范围之内，将考验所有相关方的智慧。