The winner of the Costa Award 2012 was announced on 2 January 2013.
For the first time ever, a female winner features in every category:
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Graphic memoir, Dotter of her Father's Eyes, becomes the first-ever graphic work to win a Costa Award; the writer's co-author and husband, Bryan Talbot, is the book's illustrator
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Hilary Mantel triumphs in the Novel category for Bring up the Bodies, making her the first author to win both the Costa Novel Award and the Booker Prize in the same year
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Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie collects the Costa Poetry Award for The Overhaul
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First-time writer, Francesca Segal, claims the Costa First Novel Award for The Innocents
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Severely dyslexic children's writer-illustrator, Sally Gardner, wins the Costa Children's Book Award with her fifth novel, Maggot Moon