Trivia

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.

Emilia Zimková was interested in acting from her early childhood.

With the exception of a year-long stint at the theatre of Trnava right after graduation, she was a freelance artist for her entire life.

After grammar school, she chose VSMU and graduated with a red diploma, but her dream of becoming a star in one of the theaters faded away early. Either they didn't have a vacancy or they didn't need that type of actress. So the active Zimková took matters into her own hands, founded the Theater of One Actor and started writing monodramas, with which she toured many Slovak and foreign cities.

She mainly performed monodrama pieces under the stage name Milka Zimková.

Zimková retired from acting in the 1990s.

An Easterner in every sense, although she has been living in Bratislava for decades.

Her death was announced by her ex-husband, the painter Ondrej Zimka and their daughter Milina Zimková.

She wrote the script and acted in one of the biggest Slovak comedy blockbusters She Grazed Horses on Concrete ( (published as a novel in 1980, filmed directed by Stefan Uher released in 1982).

She was a Slovak actress and screenwriter.

Towards the end of her life, she promoted conspiracy theories and pro-Russian narratives in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.