diff --git a/glib/Variant.cs b/glib/Variant.cs
index 6da8ca838..9ff39f670 100644
--- a/glib/Variant.cs
+++ b/glib/Variant.cs
@@ -114,6 +114,16 @@ namespace GLib {
 			Marshaller.Free (native_val);
 		}
 
+		[DllImport (Global.GLibNativeDll, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
+		static extern IntPtr g_variant_new_strv (IntPtr[] strv, IntPtr length);
+
+		public Variant (string[] strv)
+		{
+			IntPtr[] native = Marshaller.StringArrayToNullTermPointer (strv);
+			handle = g_variant_ref_sink (g_variant_new_strv (native, new IntPtr ((long) strv.Length)));
+			Marshaller.Free (native);
+		}
+
 		[DllImport (Global.GLibNativeDll, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
 		static extern bool g_variant_get_boolean (IntPtr handle);