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Vũ Ký, (6 January 1921, Quang Nam — 14 November 2008, Brussels), was a dissident writer who was incarcerated by three different political regimes in Vietnam.

Biography
Vũ Ký was born to a family of academics in 1921 in the province of Quảng Nam,Vietnam. In 1943, while attending the Faculty of Law, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, he began his teaching and journalism career. In 1946, he joined Vietnam Quoc Dan Dang but was sentenced to 20 years by the Viet Minh during the power struggle between the different factions fighting against French colonial rule. After the fall of South Vietnam at the end of April, 1975, Vũ Ký was interned three times by the Communist government in different re-education camps as a political prisoner. In 1980, due to the intervention by the Belgium government,Vũ Ký was released and was allowed to emigrate to Belgium, where he and his family resided until his death in November of 2008.

After emigrating to Belgium, Vũ Ký worked with the French-language daily newspaper Le Soir in Brussels, and served as an examiner at international high school graduation exams in Geneva and London. He was a lecturer at the Vietnamese Socio-Cultural Center in Brussels and a member of the Writers' Association of Belgium (Sabam). He continued to revise and update his books, and wrote essays for Vietnamese magazines and newspapers in Europe, Australia, and the US. Vũ Ký carried on his fight against the communist regime in Vietnam through his writings in newspapers, and with his involvement in preserving the Vietnamese Literature history and culture for the conscience of the younger generation growing up in exile.

Vũ Ký were most known for his books on Vietnamese literature and culture. His books had been used as standard references in the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) education system. He also published stories, newspaper articles, and literary criticism for magazines worldwide, writing in Vietnamese and French. In 2003, Vũ Ký was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Minh Hoai Duc Trinh, president of the US-based Overseas Vietnamese International Pen Club, a member of the International Pen Club.