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- Died
- Birth nameEmilia Leskova
- Emilia Zimková was born on August 1, 1951 in Okruzná, Presov District, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. She was an actress and writer, known for She Kept Asking for the Moon (1982), Proc? (1987) and Zlaté casy (1979). She was married to Ondrej Zimka. She died on May 30, 2023 in Bratislava, Slovakia.
- SpouseOndrej Zimka (2 children)
- She also collected many awards, even in America.
- She studied acting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, graduating in 1973.
- Milka Zimková wrote a book of short stories from the present. It's called "InterCity", and in it also goes back to her childhood spent in Okruzná. The stories are also about the people she met on the trains during the trips to performances. The book was illustrated by her daughter - artist Milina Zimková.
- She found an important source of inspiration for her works in her native region. She successfully transferred the Saris dialect, temperament and original sense of humor of the people from the East Slovak region not only to her book debut Pásla kone na betóne (1980), for which she received the Ivan Krasko award, but also to the books No a co (1985), Bez slov (1999), or InterCity (2009), or to the texts of monodramas such as Revelo nás ideze, Revelo nam treba (1979), Cas kikirikania (1980), Zniva (1986), To len tak naoko (1989).
- Milka Zimková was also one of the most prominent representatives of one-actor theater in Slovakia.
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