A | Renee 编译 今天，新西兰教育部和儿童部（Oranga Tamariki）宣布了拟裁员逾千人的计划，被公务员工会称为“黑暗的一天”。
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其中，教育部拟裁掉565个岗位；儿童部拟裁掉447个岗位。 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.
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近2500个工作岗位在过去几周被裁撤，因为政府希望节省超过10亿纽币的成本。
C | 财政部长Nicola Willis表示，需要削减开支，以结束浪费性支出，恢复财政纪律，重点是削减“后勤部门的支出”。 代表公务员的工会称今天宣布的裁员是“野蛮的”和“仓促的”。公共服务协会(PSA)助理秘书Fleur Fitzsimons称，周三对受影响机构的员工来说是“黑暗的一天”。 她在一份声明中说，“对于公共服务工作者和他们所支持的儿童和年轻人来说，今天是黑暗的一天，我们认为政府大幅削减预算不会带来政府承诺的更好结果。” “今天，数百名敬业的公务员被告知他们失去了工作，现在面临着不确定的未来。
D | 这给他们和他们的家人带来了难以置信的痛苦。” PSA工会声称，裁员将影响到两家机构十分之一的员工，并将影响到为公众提供的一线服务。
E | 新西兰最大的教师工会NZEI主席Mark Potter表示，对教育部工作人员的裁员规模将是“毁灭性的”。 “总理和财长认为有必要削减开支，这样他们就能兑现减税的承诺。”我们现在看到的削减可能会对未来几年的教育和学生产生巨大影响。” 工党党魁Chris Hipkins称儿童部的裁员是“前所未有的”。 “从根本上说，这是关于优先事项的问题，而本届政府的优先事项是错误的。” “他们已经优先为房东减税29亿纽币，同时他们还削减了一些服务，比如儿童部，一个处理弱势儿童的机构。
F | 我认为他们的优先级完全错了。” 财政部长Nicola Willis表示，“我们正在开展广泛的工作，以确保政府机构最大限度地利用纳税人的钱，并最大限度地减少后勤支出，所有机构都有望实现节支。” 与此同时，纳税人联盟（Taxpayers Union）今天表示，高通胀仍然是政府“进一步加快控制浪费”的一个信号。 今天公布的通胀数据显示，尽管经济继续走在降温的轨道上，但年通货膨胀率仍高于央行的目标范围。
G | “这证明，如果她需要的话， Nicola Willis)必须进一步更快地控制惠灵顿的浪费性开支。
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