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Arsen Diklic is a Serbian writer, film and television screenwriter who, with his literary creations, ranks among the most important Serbian writers for children and youth. As a child, he fell in love with the river Gacka, where he also had his hidden boat, and later spent his best days on the Danube and the Sava. Many of his stories and poems arose from that love and dreams on the rivers, and one of the most beautiful is the poem "The Blue Whale". In his novels, Diklic describes events during the Second World War. In cooperation with Branko Bauer, he wrote the screenplay for the film "Don't turn around, son" (based on his novel of the same name), which won the "Golden Arena for Directing" at the Pula festival in 1956.