diff --git a/packages/bigframes/bigframes/core/compile/sqlglot/sql/base.py b/packages/bigframes/bigframes/core/compile/sqlglot/sql/base.py
index f77dcbee4d93..9f5136cb8226 100644
--- a/packages/bigframes/bigframes/core/compile/sqlglot/sql/base.py
+++ b/packages/bigframes/bigframes/core/compile/sqlglot/sql/base.py
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ def literal(value: typing.Any, dtype: dtypes.Dtype | None = None) -> sge.Express
         return sge.func("ST_GEOGFROMTEXT", sge.convert(wkt))
     elif dtype == dtypes.TIMEDELTA_DTYPE:
         return sge.convert(utils.timedelta_to_micros(value))
+    elif dtype == dtypes.STRING_DTYPE:
+        return sge.convert(str(value))
     else:
         if isinstance(value, np.generic):
             value = value.item()
diff --git a/packages/bigframes/tests/unit/core/compile/sqlglot/sql/test_base.py b/packages/bigframes/tests/unit/core/compile/sqlglot/sql/test_base.py
index 617f3636d403..41a44c4f6c34 100644
--- a/packages/bigframes/tests/unit/core/compile/sqlglot/sql/test_base.py
+++ b/packages/bigframes/tests/unit/core/compile/sqlglot/sql/test_base.py
@@ -127,11 +127,28 @@ def test_literal_for_geo():
             "PARSE_JSON('{\\'a\\': 10}')",
             id="json",
         ),
+        pytest.param(
+            2019,
+            sql.dtypes.STRING_DTYPE,
+            "'2019'",
+            id="string_from_int",
+        ),
+        pytest.param(
+            pa.scalar(2019),
+            sql.dtypes.STRING_DTYPE,
+            "'2019'",
+            id="string_from_pyarrow_scalar",
+        ),
+        pytest.param(
+            True,
+            sql.dtypes.STRING_DTYPE,
+            "'True'",
+            id="string_from_bool",
+        ),
     ),
 )
 def test_literal_explicit_dtype(value, dtype, expected):
-    got = sql.to_sql(sql.literal(value, dtype=dtype))
-    assert got == expected
+    assert sql.to_sql(sql.literal(value, dtype=dtype)) == expected
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(