Bertrand Vac was the pen name of Quebec novelist and surgeon Aimé Pelletier (August 20, 1914 – July 23, 2010).
[1][2] Aimé Pelletier, writing as Bertrand Vac, developed a literary career while working for over fifty years at the Verdun General Hospital as a surgeon and, in semi-retirement, as a surgical assistant.
After the war, Pelletier chose to study surgery in Paris, where his colleagues preferred to call him "Bernard", rather than "Aimé".
[1] Pelletier wrote fourteen books during a sixty-year literary career, primarily with publisher Le cercle du livre de France, later known Les Éditions Pierre Tisseyre.
[1] Many of his works are particularly referenced to Montreal's Golden Square Mile, where Pelletier lived for over half a century.