3 books by Oregon authors win awards By Amy Wang, oregonlive.com Share: PORTLAND — Three books by Oregon authors are among the six winners of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association’s 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Awards. The winning Oregon books are: “Cemetery Boys,” by Aiden Thomas of Portland. This young adult novel centers on a trans Latinx teenager seeking full acceptance from his family. When he tries to prove himself by exercising the family’s hereditary supernatural powers to summon a spirit, things don’t go as planned. The novel was also a National Book Award finalist. “Rough House,” by Tina Ontiveros of The Dalles. This moving memoir looks back on a childhood among the Pacific Northwest logging communities of the ’80s and ’90s, spent with a father who was both charming and cruel.