"I do not personally know of anyone more worthy of [this prize] than this gentle monk from Vietnam. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity".[32] In that King had revealed the candidate he had chosen to nominate and had made a "strong request" to the prize committee was in sharp violation of Nobel traditions and protocol.[33][34] The committee did not make an award that year.
In college I bought Lotus in a Sea of Fire, he was well known in the Vietnam Era in the USA
https://www.amazon.com/Vietnam-Lotus-Th ... 170&sr=1-1
My copy is now worth $120 !